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- From: tsf+@cs.cmu.edu (Timothy Freeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.cryonics,news.answers,sci.answers
- Subject: Cryonics FAQ 8: Communications
- Supersedes: <part8_904633307@cs.cmu.edu>
- Followup-To: sci.cryonics
- Date: 1 Oct 1998 07:02:27 GMT
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Univ. -- Computer Science Dept.
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- Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions
- and their answers about cryonics, the practice of carefully preserving
- very recently clinically and legally dead people in hopes that they can be
- revived in the future. It should be read by anyone interested in posting
- to sci.cryonics and by anyone who finds the prospect of certain death
- irritating.
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu sci.cryonics:9659 news.answers:141120 sci.answers:8995
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- Archive-name: cryonics-faq/part8
-
- Cryonics
- Frequently Asked Question List
- Section 8: Communications
- Last Modified Sun Jan 29 15:34:54 1995
-
- (You can fetch cryomsg "n" by sending mail to kqb@cryonet.org with the
- subject line "CRYOMSG n", where "n" is a mesage number. There is
- more about this in the answer to question 8-2. The index
- to this FAQ list is cryomsg "0018.1". )
-
- Copyright 1993 by Tim Freeman. See the end of Section 1 for
- restrictions on redistribution.
-
- 8-1. How can I get more information?
-
- Steve Bridge's "Introduction to Cryonics" gives a quick, three-page
- overview of cryonics. This overview is cryomsg 972.
-
- For a more detailed introduction, including a discussion of the
- scientific evidence that freezing injury may be repairable, read the
- booklet "Cryonics: Reaching for Tomorrow", which is available from the
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation (Question 6-4 has the address). It
- includes an extensive Question and Answer section.
-
- The books "Engines of Creation" and "Unbounding the Future", by
- K. Eric Drexler, et al. describe nanotechnology (also called
- molecular nanotechnology or molecular engineering). This is the
- kind of technology needed to revive anyone preserved with today's
- methods of cryonic suspension.
-
- The largest three suspension organizations each have newsletters. For
- contact information about on them, see the answer to Question 6-4.
-
- 8-2. What is a cryomsg? How do I fetch one?
-
- There has been a cryonics mailing list since July 1988. To get current
- information about the mailing list, send email to majordomo@cryonet.org
- with the message body "info cryonet". To subscribe to the mailing
- list, send email to majordomo@cryonet.org with the message body
- "subscribe cryonet". Most Cryomsg's are archived messages from this
- mailing list.
-
- To get a cryomsg, send mail to kqb@cryonet.org with the subject
- "CRYOMSG nnn nnn" where the nnn's are the numbers of the cryomsg's you
- want. (Some cryomsg's are at an old site. For these cryomsg's, the
- response to the mail to kqb@cryonet.org will be instructions for
- fetching the cryomsg from the old site, instead of the cryomsg you want.)
- Also, all cryomsg's referenced in this FAQ (and a few others) are
- available by anonymous FTP from pop.cs.cmu.edu, directory
- "/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/archive".
- You will need to give the entire directory path at once to FTP, rather
- than the commands "cd /afs" "cd cs.cmu.edu" and so forth, because the
- directories at the beginning of the path are protected from anonymous FTP
- access. Cryomsgs numbers 100, 200, ..., 900 have one line summaries of the
- preceding 100 cryomsg's. Message number 0000 has a top level index,
- and message number 0001 has the subjects of all of the messages. Message 0004
- has a list of cryonics suspension organizations and also
- cryonics-related organizations and publications. Message 0005 is
- entitled "Suggested reference messages for new subscribers".
-
-