Re: Any suggestions? - newsgroups

["Tim Gwinn" <***>]

I've not found any usenet newsgroups that were either already discussing
Rosennean ideas or that seemed like useful venues to discuss them. Usenet
groups are usually wild and wooly, spam attractors,and not terribly focused,
especially since they are usually completely unmoderated. They are
essentially wide open bulletin boards, where anybody can write anything.

I had seen those older references to your father's name on some groups. But,
in looking at the current threads on those groups, it just did not seem like
a very useful or efficient forum for discussing his work. Some possible
groups were 'sci.systems', 'bionet.info-theory'. But, it seems like it would
be difficult to get alot of coherent discussion going, with such a high
'noise-to-signal ratio' on usenet.

Google Groups Help (http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/help.html) says
that their archives go back 20 yrs! I'm not sure how many messages or
threads are usually stored on individual usenet news servers.

Regards,
Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf Of Judith
> Rosen
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:09 AM
> To: ***
> Subject: Fw: Any suggestions?
>
>
> > One other question I have for the list members is: Does anyone have
> > suggestions as to which newsgroup lists are worth subscribing to from a
> > Rosennean perspective? I have only just recently discovered
> this dimension
> > to the google universe and when I ran a search on my father's
> name in that
> > dimension, a ton of completely different stuff from all that
> I've seen up
> to
> > now came up. But the group names are so bizarrely varied (what were they
> > talking about my father for on "alt.tibetan.meditation"???) that I am a
> bit
> > lost. What's more, some of the posts are from as lsong ago as1993! How
> long
> > do these things live on the internet? Anyway, I would appreciate any
> > information the list can shed on the way these groups differ from
> discussion
> > lists such as this one and how they work. Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Judith
> > Website address: http://www.rosen-enterprises.com/
> >