X-Message-Number: 33477
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:11:36 +0100
Subject: Please don't kill CryoNet
From: Eivind Berge <>

Kevin Q. Brown announced in Message #33476 that CryoNet will end on
March 17, 2011. I want to say this is a very sad decision and I exhort
him to change his mind. Since 1996, CryoNet has been a daily fixture
in my life, and no other cryonics forum comes close for news and
discussion on the topic. In my opinion, the quality of postings is
almost as good now as when I first joined. Yes, there is also garbage,
but not the "zombie hordes" of trolls and spammers that would justify
shutting the whole thing down. I think the rating system works pretty
well, too, though it has been abused on occasion. Indeed everything
works surprisingly well, given how open it is. And the cryonics
community needs a place for us to come together openly.

The beauty of CryoNet is its simplicity. No creeping featurism here,
which has degraded so many services. Just plain text by email which
also remains immutably in the archives, easily referenced. CryoNet
does not need a major reboot, in my opinion, and it certainly does not
deserve to die. Just leave it alone, please.

Eivind Berge

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