X-Message-Number: 941
From: Kevin Q. Brown
Subject: USENET sci.cryonics Passes! 
Date: 1 Jul 1992

Subject: USENET sci.cryonics Passes!

The vote for creating the unmoderated USENET sci.cryonics news
group succeeded!  The official announcement will go out tomorrow.
I would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for it.
Also, special thanks to Tim Freeman, who handled the vote counting,
and (in alphabetical order) to Keith Henson, Perry Metzger, 
Steve Strong, and Russell Whitaker for getting the USENET cryonics
news group idea rolling.

After the official announcement, there is a mandatory five-day waiting
period during which the net can correct any errors in the posted votes.
After that, provided no serious objections to the vote are raised,
the news.announce.newgroups moderator will send the newgroup message
to create sci.cryonics.  Don't expect to see any sci.cryonics messages
for about a week.

This cryonics mailing list will continue to run as before for those people
who do not have access to USENET (or who, for some reason, do not want to
access USENET).  The mailing list thus will be a gateway to and from the
sci.cryonics news group:

      cryonics mailing list <---> sci.cryonics

I expect the mailing list and sci.cryonics messages to be mostly, but not
entirely, the same.  For example, mailing list Administrivia messages do
not need to go to sci.cryonics.  Also, if the volume of sci.cryonics
messages gets too high (or the quality too low) it may be prudent to send
to the mailing list only those sci.cryonics messages of greatest interest.
(How does one determine which messages are of "greatest interest"?  One
approach is that if I miss a message that should go to the mailing list
then anyone can send it to me for distribution to the mailing list.)

I would like sci.cryonics to start off with several high-quality messages.
(Remember, you get only one chance to make a first impression.)
Furthermore, since this is SCI.cryonics, not talk.cryonics, misc.cryonics,
or soc.cryonics, my suggestion is to seed it with the best, hard-science
and general reference information messages we have available.  We can
recycle the "best of cryonics" over the past four years to start
sci.cryonics, since most people on the net have not seen those messages.
(Send email to me with the Subject "CRYOMSG 0001" to receive the list
of 900+ message titles.)  Of course, permission of the original author(s)
before reposting is strongly recommended!  Also, accounts of the most
recent cryonic suspensions would be great.  They will show that suspensions
really are being done and where the state of the art is today.

Message #0004 (List of Cryonics-Related Organizations and Publications)
needs to be fine-tuned for release to the world.  It is divided into
two parts:
  (1) those organizations with suspension capability (or that are working
      toward achieving suspension capability) and
  (2) those organizations and publications that support cryonics in other
      ways (including life extension publications run by cryonicists).
The organizations in part (1) are:
  Alcor, American Cryonics Society (ACS), Cryonics Institute (CI),
  Cryonics Association of Canada, Cryovita, International Cryonics
  Foundation, Trans Time, Alcor UK, Cryonics Association of Australia,
  and the Pacific Cryobionic Society.
The organizations and publications in part (2) are:
  Abiolysist Macroscope, Alcor Indiana Communications Board,
  Citizens for an Extended Lifespan (CEL), cryonics mailing list (Cryonet),
  CryoNetUK, Extropy, Extropy Institute, Extropian mailing list,
  Life Extension Report (and Life Extension Foundation), Longevity Report,
  New World's BBS (cryonics conference), Periastron, Reanimation Foundation,
  sci.cryonics, and the Society for Venturism.
Please let me know of any corrections, additions, or deletions needed.

For those of you who requested to be listed in message #0002:
    Directory of cryonics mailing list subscribers
please let me know of any changes (additions, deletions, updates)
you want made to that list.  I point this out because the CRYOMSG
message retrieval software does not check who is requesting the
archive messages, so, unless I change it, anyone who knows about it
can retrieve message #0002.

Please let me know what other suggestions you have about how best to
start sci.cryonics.  Thank you.

                              Kevin Q. Brown
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