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- From: merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,news.groups
- Subject: Re: Reluctant call for moderation of sci.physics
- Message-ID: <MERRITT.92Dec21110641@macro.bu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:06:41 GMT
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- In-reply-to: matt@physics.berkeley.edu's message of 15 Dec 92 20:22:10 GMT
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- In article <MATT.92Dec15152210@physics.berkeley.edu> matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes:
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- In article <BCR.92Dec16000355@hfl3sn02.cern.ch> bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) writes:
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- > Here! Here! I'll second this even with the name as-is. I for one
- > normally am not subscribe to sci.physics, because it is too long and
- > redundant. I Only read this group when I have work I'm really
- > trying to aviod doing. I'm sure most of us are two busy to garentee
- > to read through 50+ some articles posted here a day to see what
- > passes the moderation policy criteria. However, if we can figure
- > out a way to split that equally amoung 4-5 people I'd be happy to be
- > one of them.
-
- > The newsgroup soc.feminism is moderated by a panel of several people;
- > articles are randomly sent to one of the moderator. Perhaps we could
- > do that here. I'm sure the soc.feminism moderators would be happy to
- > help us set up the same sort of system that they have.
- >
- > Incidentally, I might not have stressed this enough in my original
- > posting: we can't have a moderated newsgroup without a moderator. It
- > is important that we get some volunteers for that position if we want
- > anything to happen.
-
-
- We don't need censorship here. Everyone is quite capable of choosing
- for himself. This not a Journal of Physics. It is a great big
- public-restroom-wall. People who feel that they cannot stand having
- "Crackpots" should leave the group and start your own Facist/Moderated
- group, which I will predict now will be a very boring place indeed.
-
- If I want to read a refereed journal I have only to pick-up
- Phys. Rev. Letters or preferably Phys. Rev. D. I get enough of
- that, I read this group for the lighter side to physics. And
- as someone noted to avoid work that I ought to be doing.
-
- Abian's theories are not falseifiable. If that isn't enough, in an
- Abian Universe Total Entropy decreases! It is a sad day indeed
- when people of Science resort authoritarian tactics instead if
- using their brains to deal with charlatans.
-
- If this call for moderation of this group succeeds it will be a
- sad day for freedom of thought.
-
-
- Sean J. Merritt.
- Department of Physics Boston University
- MACRO and SuperKamiokande
-
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- Sean J. Merritt | "Every revolt is a cry of innocence
- Dept of Physics Boston University| and an appeal to the essence of being."
- merritt@macro.bu.edu | Albert Camus, The Rebel
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