qb7g6 at fel.tno.nl (Maarten Landzaat) writes:
>I have a friend working at the Dutch TNO IVEG. When I told her about
>bionet.molbio.ageing, she said she never heard of it. She told me
>nearly all communication is done by plain mail and phone. She was
>very interested in the newsgroup and would consider getting access to the
>internet.
>I have a few questions:
>Who reads/uses this newsgroup?
The bionet newsgroups are for professional biologists doing research
in ageing.
>Who started this newsgroup?
The group was formed a couple of years back. The discussion leader's
name is Sydney Shall and the newsgroup was supposedly going to be
actively used by the National Institute of Aging. Unfortunately this
has not yet happened.
>Why is number of postings so low? (I'm quite new to news, so maybe it's just
>my site).
Probably because no one in this community has taken a real interest in
electronic communications yet as witnessed by the reaction of your
friend above.
>Is bionet in news not a regular newsgroup, but a mirror of some other network?
The bionet USENET newsgroup have parallel e-mail lists as described
below. bionet is a specialized USENET hierarchy.
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