As someone who has recently joined GP-UK I can understand the point being
made.
Stephen
At 20:44 20/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Iain,
>
>GP-UK is a public e-mail list for doctors .Some GPs may welcome the use of a
>resource such as orthogate. Many of the problems I get in my surgical
>practice is from late referral of orthopaedic problems by general
>practitioners. You say GP-UK facilitates discussion on new ideas, research,
>workshops, seminars, conferences, grants, education, software development
>etc for the UK General Practice (Family Medicine) community. Non-UK views
>are also welcome. GP-UK intends to promote collaborative work, problem
>solving and support. Surely this includes orthopaedics
>
>
>Looking at GP-UK I wonder how most people cope with the 2000 messages per
>month. It looks as if a proportion of your members use it as a chat room.
>The message threads are virtually impossible to follow. On the orthopod
>(mailbase) http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/orthopod list we broke the list
>down into sub-speciality areas to cope with information overload. We found
>that we began to loose members as the list volume went over 400 messages per
>month. Also on the orthopod list over 50% of the message threads contain at
>least one academic reference. I really wonder how some of your members find
>time to send over 100 messages per month to the list. I do not regard that I
>have spammed your list. This is useful medical information that you are
>being send. I would hesitate if it was commercial or a timeshare etc
>
>I hope this information is useful. We all work for the same government in
>the UK.
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Chris Oliver FRCS (Orth) DM
>Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon
>Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit
>http://www.orthopaedic.ed.ac.uk/cwo.htm
>Director Faculty of Medical Informatics
>http://www.rcsed.ac.uk
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Friday, November 20, 1998 2:09 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: "Use the gateway, Luke"
>>
>> Any chance you could stop spamming these adverts to GP-UK?
>>
>> Many subscribers to GP-UK are getting a little annoyed.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> you typed:
>>
>> > In the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars ~ "Use the gateway, Luke"
>> >
>> > It appears that Orthogate the virtual gateway site for trauma and
>> > orthopaedic surgery on the Internet is more than just a sexy idea from a
>> > group of Orthopods. See http://www.orthogate.com (USA) and
>> > http://www.orthogate.org (European Mirror). The concepts of online
>> Medical
>> > Communities, Webfarms, digital information landscaping, intelligent
>> Metadata
>> > search engines, global collaboration and the pursuit of quality have
>> been
>> > pulled together by the Orthogate team in developing this evolutionary
>> > gateway site. This was clearly evident from the recent MEDNET meeting
>> in
>> > London.
>> >
>> > If you have not done so please visit the Orthogate site, we have learnt
>> a
>> > lot of lessons building this project which is not even 250 days old. A
>> > review of the project can be found on the MEDNET site at
>> > http://www.virtualkamloops.com/cloughs/orthogate/mednet98.html
>> >
>> > May the force be with you...............................
>> >
>> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> > Chris Oliver FRCS (Orth) DM
>> > Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon
>> > Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit
>> > http://www.orthopaedic.ed.ac.uk/cwo.htm
>> > Director Faculty of Medical Informatics
>> > http://www.rcsed.ac.uk
>> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Iain Hotchkies ambition: polymath
>> currently: jack of all trades
>> www.hotch.demon.co.uk corollary: master of none
>
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