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In article <CuCHrp.8Ht@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>,
Eugene N. Miya <eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>You want to justify why misc.emerg-services doesn't fill this bill.

misc.emerg-services does cover quite alot of what we would probably be
discussing but I believe there is also quite a bit that can be covered by
a statewide group that would probably be a little too geographically
specific to be interesting to all the subscribers of misc.emerg-services.
California, I think, is rather unique given it's size, topography,
population.  There are numerous things that emergency agencies here in
California have to face that similar agencies in other states (not to
mention the rest of the world) will probably not.  Just for one example,
the California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection is the largest fire
protection agency in the US, second only to Australian National Forestry
(I can't remember their real title) in the world.  Los Angeles and Oakland
(both California cities) experienced some of the nations most costly
natural disasters here in the past decade with the fires and earthquakes,
now given that it will typically be resources from within the state
(except for possibly the military) that will be responding and handling
incidents like this in the future, ca.emergency would give a place to
discuss planning for similar incidents in the future.  


>Sure, we know Distributions are somewhat broken, but is the traffic

Is it broken or does most of the news software just ignore it.

>in m.e-s that high?

It appears to have ~ 40 messages a day on average.

>  We have ca.earthquakes; it's largely a group
>of catharsis, a "support" group with a few professional seismologists
>thrown in.  Is this new group going to be the same way?  Why or why not?

I can't say for sure how the newsgroup would turn out, but I don't believe
it would turn into what ca.earthquakes is.  There isn't so many hacks out
there trying to predicts fires, as there is earthquakes (though that is
not to say we wouldn't discuss emergency operations during an earthquake.)


>Dale needs support, but he really needs evidence to back him up far more
>than "Me, too" posts.  Keep it up.
>
>--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
>  Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
>  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
>My 3rd favorite use of a flame thrower is "Fahrenheit 451."
>A Ref: Uncommon Sense, Alan Cromer, Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.


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