Alan Moorman wrote:
>>>>I think you're confusing your being baffled with
meaninglessness in
>>>>general.
>>>
>>> OK, how about if I said that I think that 80% of the
people
>>> who would read that in this group wouldn't comprehend
it,
>>> and would skip the information.
>>
>>Which group? This is going to 3 groups, most of the
>>participants are long term posters and post in all 3
groups
>>regularly. I am not saying some won't skip some of the
>>posts but a lot participate in these types of threads,
some
>>ask for the "English" version from time to time. No big
>>deal.
>
>
alt.food.diabetic,misc.health.diabetes,alt.support .diabetes
>
> Are the groups. Sorry I didn't say "news groups".
>
> I read several diabetic groups and several food groups,
and
> many of the posts are cross-posted, so I usually just say
> "news group" or "group". Jeez, I'm sorry.
>
> Regardless, posting in opaque scientific terminology is
> wasted effort unless one is in a professional group,
perhaps
> one of the "sci." groups.
>
> Alan Moorman

misc.health.diabetes is a "scientific" group by their
charter, asd is obvious - "support" and the food group is
used for posting recipes mainly to keep that out of the
other two groups.