NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/infosyst/gopher/1152

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Re: New/additional gopher at the Univ of Utah
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

>: Not much of a solution.  Aside from the fact that many fields of
>: interest are not adequately represented in Usenet newsgroups (like
>: marine biology), this is a very inefficient way to proceed.

>This suggests that a straightforward advertising and publicity and
>group creation approach (probably say "bionet.marine" would be a good
>one to start up) would maximize the effect of your gopher building
>efforts.  At least then you could get the word out to quite a few
>people, by adding the information about your gopher server to the
>calls for discussion and for votes for the new group.  I know that
>BIONET goes to places like Woods Hole, so you have at least some of
>a ready target audience already.

I'd like to hear from others on whether setting up a gopher network
really requires months of hard work, or whether there is ANY interest in
making it easier to find gophers that deal with particular subjects.

By the way, it isn't surprising that BIONET reaches Wood's Hole, since
it deals primarily with molecular biology, and the are lots of molecular
biologists down there.  Not much help for marine ecologists like me.

I get the message that Ed wants me to play a major leadership role in
stimulating the use of electronics communications by my scientific
colleagues.  But I'm a lazy guy who just wants to make maximum use of
existing facilities without devoting my career to it.  The point of my
postings is that I think that other gopher managers will face this
problem eventually as gopher proliferates, and the sooner we give some
thought to how we address it, the easier it will be for all of us.
--
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. [phone]
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