Subject: Some thoughts regarding LADnet

From: [email-masked] (shengj)
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 93 16:58:55 CDT

Hi, LADnetters,
After being buried in thesis works for a very long time, I finally pull my head 
out, knowing that majority CSPA fellows have received GCs or will receive them 
in coming days. I am very grateful to those volunteers who have spent enormous
energies and efforts helping us, especially Mi Mi, Ju Wu and lots others.
Jimmy wrote a very good letter saying that LADnet has served its purpose of
info exchange of LAD applications, but it has a great deal of meaning to 
continue existing for a subgroup of CSS in the "new world". Jimmy gave some
very thoughtful points in his letter.
I think Ladnet should continue its existence not only because it will serve
as bonds among us, a group of highly educated and smart people who want to
migrate into main stream of American society, but also because there are
still a lot of long-term and short-term issues to be settled.
Short-term issues are those newly emerging issues due to change of status,
such as issues regarding tax, travel, new dependents, etc. Long-term issues
will be LAD/World Quota lobby, helping late coming sisters and brothers, etc.
I wish everyone in LADnet can contribute his/her ideas how to maintain LADnet
and direct it to evolve like what we want. I am very for opening LADnet
with some ethic rules of posting letters. LADnet should differentiate itself
from soc.culture.china, CNDnews or other newsgroups and maillists. It is
for a group of people who share common interests.

Have a nice day!

Jonathan J. Sheng
Theoretical Chemistry,NYU