Abstract
In October James Mahaffy (Dordt College, IA, USA) said it all: ‘While this newsgroup at times has been noisy with its share of SPAM, it also has been a great place for me to lurk and get a feel for what is going on in parasitology…when I have had a question that I could not answer from the parasitology texts…[it] has been a very helpful group. I understand that there were some that wanted…[it] moderated, but there has been only one message in about five weeks. Either the group is moderated so tight that nothing is posted or the parasitologists have gone elsewhere.’ In fact, for most of 2000 it has carried no discussion and only a couple of unanswered questions. For example, Alan Boatman, from ‘Lao People Democratic Republic, asked about ‘tremetodes [sic] that use crabs as their sole intermediate host…we have no libraries in Laos’ and Sara Bingley wanted to know how to get rid of Scuttle Fly (Diptera: family Phoridae), as a friend has an infestation of Megaselia, possibly M. ciliata, in her hair. Otherwise a student asked if hookworms still kill puppies, and James Mahaffy himself advised her to look at a good veterinary parasitology book or try a search on ‘your library's electronic database’. Indeed the ProMed-mail list, which covers outbreaks of infectious disease generally, including those of plants, often has more exchanges about parasites than does this newsgroup.
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