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In article <1993Aug10.163900.1@woods.ulowell.edu> lebaronj@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
>You are to be commended for trying to generate
>discussion on this news group.  It is surprising
>that it is so inactive.
>
>Do you suppose that there are other, more active,
>HIV-related news groups?
>
>lebaronj@woods.uml.edu
>

I too, have been surprised by the lack of activity on this newsgroup.
As bad, or even worse, is the entire "hiv" node, which contains a couple
of dozen groups ("hiv.test', "hiv.medical.questions", "hiv.ny.announce",
etc.etc.) 

There is lots of traffic on "sci.med.aids", and a little on bionet.molbio.
hiv", but I would think there to be enough interest to support all of these
groups. I am continually surprised at the lack of postings. I always expect 
them to take off "one day".

Perhaps one of the reasons for this is the wide usage of the AEGIS 
network, an association of BBS that mirror by over night phone call.
ACT UP maintains an active group, and HIVNet is echoed from europe.
The critical path BBS (an AEGIS member recently got partial Internet 
accessm but it appears to be just for E-mail, and for them to read
usenet: Accessing the CPP BBS is still not possible from the Internet
I certainly would like to see these groups take off. Perhaps if and when
an AEGIS member gets a full Internet node we will have participation from 
the thousands who are undoubtedly interested.

Carlton
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