Guest guest Posted February 18, 1999 Report Share Posted February 18, 1999 Take note of the man who signed this letter. He expressed an interest in learning about BSE. Does anyone know who he is? I assume he is not with the CDC -- or is Naitonal Center for Infectious Diseases in Atlanta an office of the CDC??? Beverly G. --part0_919307542_boundary Content-ID: <0_919307542 (AT) inet_out (DOT) mail.usa.healthnet.org.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: mlist@...> Received: from rly-zb02.mx.aol.com (rly-zb02.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.2]) by air-zb02.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:32:36 -0500 Received: from nemesis.healthnet.org (nemesis.healthnet.org [198.115.132.13]) by rly-zb02.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id VAA01197; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:32:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by nemesis.healthnet.org id CAA31643; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 02:29:50 GMT Received: by nemesis.healthnet.org (bulk_mailer v1.5); Thu, 18 Feb 1999 02:18:16 +0000 Received: by nemesis.healthnet.org id BAA29135; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:53:39 GMT Received: by satellife.healthnet.org id UAA22471; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:53:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:53:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: 199902180153.UAA22471@...> To: promed-ahead-edr@...> Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Why I subscribe to PMm: C.J.s Sender: owner-promed@... Reply-To: promed@... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit WHY I SUBSCRIBE TO ProMED-mail: C.J. PETERS ******************************************* [see: Welcome to ProMED-mail's InterNet-A-Thon 990215202812] Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 When [ProMED-mail] first came out, I found it to be a pain in the neck. There were a lot of postings that would have been more appropriately resolved by a visit to the library and a lot of input from persons with little or no expertise that just contributed to the general noise level. Although advertised as not definitive, I found persons accepting information from the service as accurate without knowing the basis for reporting or any of the many caveats that had to be applied to the material posted. From my personal perspective, I was often requested to comment by one person or another and felt that I had no business airing information that was more appropriately released by a foreign or state government, nor did I wish to make any comments that could be construed as CDC policy. (The only submissions I have made, with the exception of comments on certain errors of fact, have been designed to fall outside the area of my branch's expertise for this particular reason). Over the months, I have noted a change in my attitude. I find the number of interesting new things that I have heard about more than justify any carping that I may have had about the postings. I value the information on plant and non-human animal diseases particularly. These areas often do not receive the attention they deserve. Not only do we all share the same planet and have interactions for that simple reason, but the driving forces behind emerging pathogens are often the same or, if different, instructive. The timely postings on BSE were a case in point for me. Furthermore, I think the level of editing has improved markedly. There are still some media-like reports but increasingly they are used just to get the ball rolling. The moderators exert a light-handed effort to move the direction of the discussion to truly new things or to elucidate murky areas. Errors of fact or fanciful interpretations are addressed by gingerly worded comments by the moderators or by posting more accurate information. I think you all deserve congratulations for the way you have shaped the program. ProMED-mail serves as a valuable information service for myself and others and in addition raises our consciousness of the importance of emerging infections. The increasing knowledge of specific infectious problems serves to permit more timely international recognition of important diseases. I would encourage you to continue personally because the utility of the service depends on the quality of the moderators. 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