One of them concentrates on the biology of aging. This newsgroup has an academic orientation, and appears moderately active. Another aging-related newsgroup is one sponsored by a commercial service that uses the Usenet system to deliver actual news articles to subscribers. Subscription Like the other groups in the ClariNet system, it is available only to subscribers, with subsequent forwarding of its messages to public Internet sites forbidden by the service provider. The messages in ClariNet newsgroups are essentially news postings assembled and selected by the ClariNet staff.
Coverage is international.
The eNews groups differ from the other newsgroups under review here in that readers of the postings do not respond, in conversational fashion, by sending their own postings to the group. This is more like a newswire service than a newsgroup in the interactive sense of that term. The message traffic in this group often reaches 100 or more postings and responses weekly. The messages are frequently discussions of various drugs, often by non-clinicians, and comments on diet, exercise and other factors with possible impact on longevity. A brand new newsgroup was established during November 1995 by the people behind Creative Retirement Manitoba and the Seniors Computer Information Project.