plain old forestry newsgroup

[Scott Bergen]

Jennifer Kupp <jkupp at christa.unh.edu> wrote:
>i am interested in starting up a new newsgroup for those of us foresters 
>not nec. interested in agro...

In addition to the Finnish forest email list there is a Canadian email 
list on Forest Management decision support systems (see below).

There is not a general forestry newsgroup, and perhaps it is time to 
consider the idea.  The forestry email lists have the disadvantage of 
adding to your inbox, and relatively low subscription and traffic volumes 
(arguably an advantage for an email list) which means that there is not 
a lot of in depth discussion.

Creating a newsgroup would probably attract more people and more 
discussion, but has the disadvantages of:

1.  Being a hassle to set up (takes time, requires a vote),
2.  Having more, less focused traffic.

If anyone should decide to champion a sci.forest newsgroup for 
example, you should read the information on setting up new groups on
rtfm.mit.edu in the 

/pub/usenet-by-group/news.announce/new_users and
/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/usenet/creating-newsgroups

directories.  If you do, I'll vote for it and sign up.

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Scott Bergen
Forest Engineering Department
University of Washington
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bergen at u.washington.edu