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In article <1993Jan5.051549.26030@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, asc7556@u.cc (Andrew Corradini/SBDC) writes:
>There seems to be very little actual content going on, despite a bunch of
>(presumably voted upon and therefore interest-heavy) newsgroups devoted to
>alt.uu.xxxxxx.

Alt groups are not voted upon, they can be created without a vote.

>Before flaming me, I neither voted nor participated to
>this point, but would be willing to contribute my somewhat meager
>abilities, skills, and knowledge if more activity were present.  Maybe you
>all feel the same way, and that's the problem....

Perhaps.

>If I am truly missing something, and there is electronic virtual academia
>festering exponentially about my head, please enlighten me.  If, however,
>UU is dying a slow, entropic death, those who originally proposed and
>enthused about it had better get their respective hindquarters in gear and
>plant the seed about which the rest of us might precipitate....

I think there's some progress, mostly in the way of
separate-but-connected-to-UU endeavours like the consultants list, the
freelore initiative and so on.  Also, according to the Usenet
readership statistics the numbers keep slowly climbing.  So while the
virtual academia is not exactly like a grand central station at least
when looked at via the Usenet groups, talking about death is a bit
premature.

>Could we please have some documents/edu-ware/practical whatever put
>on-line, prominently mentioned in the FAQ, and regularly contributed to? 
>I have a bunch of info-packets for entrepreneurial/small businesses on a
>variety of topics, under development, which I would be only too happy to
>contribute when ready -- if there's truly anything going on to make the
>effort worth it....

The nic.funet.fi ftp archive and the gopher server connected to it are
still there, and if you decide to publish your info-packets via the UU
services, I'd be happy to put them in the ftp area.

//Jyrki