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- From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,news.groups
- Subject: Re: sci.crypt.research
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.135235.3450@pollux.lu.se>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 13:52:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.130926.8025@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ross Anderson) writes:
- >In <Bzru3E.1I4@chinet.chi.il.us> schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier)
- >writes:
- >
- >>Anyone besides me sick of all the political discussions? How about splitting
- >>this into sci.crypt.science and sci.crypt.politics? Or booting all of the
- >>political talk to alt.security--and having someone moderate this newsgroup to
- >>ensure compliance?
- >
- >I agree.
- >
- >However, in the interests of naming consistency, we should probably keep
- >sci.crypt for the hobbyists and create a new group called sci.crypt.research
- >for academic researchers.
- >
- >Look at sci.math and sci.math.research; the partition works pretty well.
-
- I think sci.crypt.research would be a good idea. It would probably have
- to be moderated to keep the political posts away, but I think the
- moderation policy shouldn't be too strict (i.e. posts shouldn't be
- rejected because they aren't up to academic standards, but only
- if they don't agree with the charter of the group, or if they
- only restate what's been said earlier).
-
- Does anybody feel like posting a formal RFD (Request For Discussion)
- to news.announce.newgroups?
-
- BTW, I most emphatically think that it would be a bad idea to moderate
- (i.e. censor) sci.crypt - the right way to go is to create a new,
- moderated, low-noise group.
-
- And sci.crypt.politics would be a good idea if it'd work, but I'm
- afraid it wouldn't keep the politics out of sci.crypt. Look at all the
- political posts that are crossposted between sci.space and
- talk.politics.space, for example.
-
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