In a message dated 9/3/00 0:57:30 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << Subj: CS>Please stop ruining the CS list! Date: 9/3/00 0:57:30 AM EST From: [email protected] (Steve Young) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] (Silver List) List contributers, It seems this valuable list for information about Colloidal Silver and RELATED topics is rapidly degrading, which is unfortunate. There is much to learn, experiment and report about CS, the primary topic for this list. Tonight I sampled 295 recent entries to the list to see what percentage even mentioned CS. The result was dismal - only 8.5% even mentioned CS, silver, or electrolysing water!! Moderator Mike Devour has asked to keep the list submissions on topic. I am surprised he allows so much non-topic stuff on his list. A lot of the messages are personal from one person to another, and really should have been sent directly to the individual instead of to the list. I fear the serious researchers and users of CS will be driven off the list because of the 90 plus percent of off-topics. It is too time consuming to wade through all the OT stuff which is not supposed to be on the list in the first place. Please, I know many of you have much to offer on a variety of topics, but can't you find another forum to discuss your urine drinking, word spellings, politics, garlic, coQ10, etc.? If there really is no other list, then why don't one of you start one? I am sure Mike Devour could give you ideas on how to start your own list.. Zappers and their cousins are also discussed a lot on this list. This is an interesting topic for much research and discussion. Perhaps this list could be expanded to include various forms of electrically derived treatments and preventatives suitable for home use. This would widen the scope a bit, but it would still be fairly focused on CS and zapper-like devices. I am grateful Mike owns and moderates this list. It must be a time consuming task. Again, please respect his request to keep the list on the topic for which it was created - CS. 100% on topic is not realistic, but 70% or so should be achievable if we all cooperate. --Steve Young >>
Steve: While it is true that many topics brought up on the list are not related to CS and some of these off-topic items are discussed much more than they should be, there are probably several reasons why we see this happen. First of all, the construction and production of CS using LVDC has been thoroughly discussed so newbies can get all the information the need by referring to the archives. The same is true, to a somewhat lesser extent, with regard to other methods to make good quality CS as well as to the effectiveness of CS with regard to many diseases. The second reason while I think the focus on CS tends to wander to other subjects is that the majority of the participants on this list are NOT prepared either technically with regard to electronics, biochemistry, and electrochemistry, nor are interested to conduct ongoing CS research projects. For example, I've proposed several areas where additional research may have expanded our CS knowledge base only to be met with silence. Even technical discussions that last more that a day or two are frequently ridiculed as a waste of time or "bandwidth" so most of us who ARE interested to learn from others who have more knowledge in a particular scientific area reluctant to prolong a discussion or debate. Let me conclude by launching a trial balloon to prove my point. Recently, we had a discussion about the medicinal properties of "electrolyzed water," and someone brought up the point that the type of electrode used to electrolyze the water (silver, for example) may have contributed to its medicinal benefits. Well, why not electrolyze water at different voltages (both AC and DC) using relatively pure carbon electrodes? This way the ordering of the water molecules (which, presumably, is responsible for the water's beneficial effects) can be studied while excluding the presence of any metal colloids or ions. I don't believe the small amount of carbonic acid produced should obscure the results, but if it does, I'll bet using gold electrodes at modest voltages would work as well. I'll await the response of the silver list to see if I'm correct about the lack of interest to do research. Roger -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
