Re: sci.bio.paleontology and PALEONET

[Stuart Gold <shdnlite@xxxxxxx>]

In response to the below commentry. I am not a profressional but I can 
see the benifit to keeping this a serious group without the crank 
letters. One of the ways to have your cake and eat it too is to allow 
Paleonet e-mail to be transferred to the usenet group but not the 
reverse. 

On Mon, 16 Jan 1995, Doug Erwin wrote:

> I guess I would have to vote against connecting Paleonet with Usenet, for
> much the same rational given by Henry Gee. Coming from a museum I am all
> for greater public outreach, that is one of our major functions here (along
> with sitting on committees and research!), but I think of Paleonet as a good
> place for communication WITHIN the paleontological community - as a
> scientific discussion group.  Opening this up to USENET will degrade that
> advantage - probably irreprably and in a year or so we will just be
> recreating Paleonet somewhere else.
> Doug Erwin
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