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- From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
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- Subject: Oh dear, what a hornets' nest (was: sci.crypt.research)
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 10:00:24 GMT
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- The call for the creation of a (possibly) moderated sci.crypt.research
- group seems to have stirred a real hornets' nest. And this is during
- the Crhistmas break - I wonder what will happen when everybody returns
- from their vacations?
-
- Anyway, I have the feeling that _one_ reason this has caused so much
- hot feelings is that people are afraid of being censored.
-
- I know that _some_ people are in favour of making sci.crypt moderated,
- and, yes, that would be some sort of censorship.
-
- _BUT_
-
- these people seem to be in a very small minority.
-
- The actual proposition is something completely different:
-
- to create a *new* group for technical/scientific discussions about
- cryptography, and to leave sci.crypt _as it is_.
-
- Please note that this will not censor anyone. Sci.crypt will stay as it
- is, and the discussion can continue just as before.
-
- It's not even about building ivory towers, as somebody insinuated.
- Even if a new group is moderated, and the moderator refuses to post
- anything but technical articles, there'll still be sci.crypt, and most
- of the "researchers" will probably still read it. If they don't want
- to read it - well, they can unsubscribe even today, can't they, and
- take their traffic to email. IMHO it's better to have the people who
- can't cope with the volume of sci.crypt posting to a separate
- newsgroup than to lose them altogether.
-
- So there's no need to be so upset about things. If the new group is
- created, and you don't like it, you can just go on posting to
- sci.crypt.
-
- NOTE: I am *not* involved in any way with the proposal to create
- sci.cryt.research (or whatever it should be called). The only thing
- I've done is to express my support for the idea.
-
- I have *no* interest in censoring anyone. In fact, I could manage
- without the new group (but it would sure be more convenient if the
- traffic would be sorted into different channels according to topic).
-