Re: ftp and sci.bio.paleontology

[jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jere H. Lipps)]

I did exactly the same (I think) for the same reasons.  Paleo needs good
publicity if we are to stay alive professionally, so some of us should
monitor s.b.p and keep the interests alive and correct.  Jere

>Norm: I voted for sci.bio.paleontology on Usenet because I like to see a
>lot of discussion going on about paleontology in wide circles. It could be
>a great meeting place for all kinds of devotees and more casual observers.
>Mixing it with Paleonet doesn't seem a good idea, for the reasons stated
>by Henry Gee and others. (In my experience, too, Usenet is very, very
>noisy.) It's not a matter of keeping things secret, just of adjusting the
>message after the audience. I see sci.bio.paleontology as a place where
>experts and non-experts can interact higgledy-piggledy for the
>enlightenment of both, whereas Paleonet is a forum for palaeontologists.
>And already now my mailbox is bulging, so I'm looking forward to the
>Paleonet digests you talked about rather than getting flooded from Usenet.
>
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