I don't know, the idea went all quiet, perhaps it's because no one actually
knows has to effect this change.
Herbert
""Douglas Kell"" <dbk at aber.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3C492647.31850.14295D at localhost...
> Perfectly good idea, but this prompts me to ask what happened to
> the idea that we could get the group moderated, which should
> eliminate all the spam?
>> On 18 Jan 2002, at 17:28, Herbert Sauro wrote:
>> >
> > On a completely different topic.
> >
> > There has been an awful lot of junk mail on this group over the last
year,
> > so much so that I
> > don't bother to email material to it anymore. Rather than do nothing
about
> > it has prompted me to
> > consider setting up a non-usenet news server. In fact as of today we
have
> > one running
> > at Caltech though it's not yet advertised, I'm just waiting to be
allocated
> > a static IP address.
> > A non-usenet server we could be useful because we could eliminate all
the
> > rubbish
> > that currently gets sent to metabolic-reg, plus we could introduce other
> > more specialist groups,
> > for example we could host other topics in the general area, including
> > computation, software,
> > jobs, standards, experimental techniques etc. essentially anything
related
> > to 'system biology'.
> >
> > The question is, would people be interested in this? The current group
can
> > stay on
> > usenet but we could create a new metabolic-reg group on our local
server. We
> > have existing
> > list servers through which we can advertise it's presence and people who
> > have an interest in system
> > biology/mca etc, could post links on their web sites. In addition I
would be
> > happy to host other
> > peoples areas of interest in sys bio, eg a Gepasi news group if Pedro
were
> > interested and so on.
> >
> > Herbert Sauro
> > Caltech
> >
> >
> >
> >
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