X-Message-Number: 916
From: Kevin Q. Brown
Subject: Reference & Introductory Messages 
Date: 20 Jun 1992

Subject: CRYONICS Reference & Introductory Messages

In addition to the normal stream of cryonics-related messages, (numbered
1, 2, 3, ..., 915, ...) the cryonics mailing list has several reference
and introductory messages numbered 0000, 0001, etc.  Whereas the normal
messages remain unchanged after posting to the cryonics mailing list,
this second set of messages may be updated frequently to keep them current.
Members of the cryonics mailing list can retrieve them by sending email
to me with a Subject line of the form:
    CRYOMSG xxx yyy zzz ... www
where "xxx", "yyy", "zzz", and "www" are message numbers.  (Message #0003
describes more advanced uses of CRYOMSG.)

Message #0000 is the directory of these frequently updated messages.
Here is what it currently looks like:

Frequently Updated & Reference Cryonics Messages     (Updated 19 June 1992)
------------------------------------------------

0000 - Frequently Updated & Reference Cryonics Messages
0001 - Index to all cryonics mailing list messages
0002 - Directory of cryonics mailing list subscribers
       (who requested to be listed in this directory)
0003 - CRYOMSG archive retrieval mechanism information
0004 - List of cryonics organizations and publications
0005 - Suggested reference messages for new subscribers
0006 - USENET sci.med debate on "Account of a Cryonic Suspension"
       (Almost 400K bytes)
0007 - sci.med.aids & skeptics msgs on "Cryonic suspension of an AIDS patient"
       (Almost 53K bytes)
0008 - Quantum Tunnelling and Reaction Rate in Cryonic Suspension
0009 - Insurable Interest Form for Life Insurance
0010 - "A Theoretical Understanding" by H. Keith Henson and Arel Lucas
       (Intriguing article on memes, human origin, and cryonics. >19K bytes)
0011 - sci.med responses re: sci.med.cryonics newsgroup proposal (>500K bytes)
0012 - news.groups sci.cryonics Request For Discussion messages (48K bytes)
0013 - Cryonics Humor
0014 - Alcor Board Politics (June 1992)
0014.1 - June 17 increment for Alcor Board Politics
0014.2 - June 19 increment for Alcor Board Politics

Message #0001 is the most "volatile" of these files, because it has a
one-liner description of all the messages to date and thus gets updated
with each mailblast.  Its size is now about 56K bytes.

The most recent entry is message #0014.2, which is a reply to one of the
messages in the original version of message #0014.  (The current version
of message #0014 includes both #0014.1 and #0014.2.)

Notice that some of these files are quite large.  To accomodate the limits
of mail readers, networks, etc., the CRYOMSG mechanism automatically splits
large requests into several smaller files of 300 or fewer lines apiece.

Please let me know if any updates are needed for these messages.

			       Kevin Q. Brown
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