>>I HAVE ONLY RECENTLY JOINED THIS LIST BUT I'M OVERWHELMED BY THE QUALITY >>AND NUMBER OF REPONSES I HAVE RECEIVED TO MY POSTED MESSAGE. IT IS GOING >>TO TAKE ME SEVERAL DAYS TO DIGEST ALL THE INFORMATION IN MY INBOX BUT I >>WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY A BIG THANK YOU IN ADVANCE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS >>TAKEN THE TIME TO CONTACT ME. I LOOK FORWARD TO ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTING TO >>THIS LIST IN THE FUTURE. > >I'm predominantly a "lurker" rather than an active contributor but I >second the comments above. The number of queries are and responses are >quite big and the mail-box is sometimes overwhelmed, especially if you've >just returned from a koliday. I'm wondering if the administrators who're >doing a wonderful job with this forum have considered moving this into a >Usenet newsgroup. That would be less exclusive since anyone can gain >access to the group but it has some advantages: >a) messages of the same thread are grouped together >b) Postings of the recent past can still be read (at leisure) >c) the reader can focus only on the threads he/she's interested in and >choose to disregard the rest. > >Te-Chih Liu >NUH Haematology >Singapore Sorry to disagree, but I enjoy not having the spam and garbage that comes from many usenet newsgroups. Also, I do not find it overly oppressive to take a few minutes to scan the messages for what is relevant to my work, and I even sometimes pick up a few ideas for my co-workers from the other messages. Keep it the same, remember "If it isn't broke, don't fix it!" Randy T. Fischer NIA/NIH 5600 Nathan Shock Dr. Baltimore, MD 21224 (410) 558-8452 (410) 558-8237 (fax) fischerr@vms.grc.nia.nih.gov
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