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- From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Reluctant call for moderation of sci.physics
- Followup-To: sci.physics
- Date: 21 Dec 92 11:23:08
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: merritt@macro.bu.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 16:06:41 GMT
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- In article <MERRITT.92Dec21110641@macro.bu.edu> merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- That, in fact, is exactly what I am proposing: not that sci.physics be
- eliminated, or that it be moderated, but rather that we create a new
- moderated group, sci.physics.research. sci.physics won't be affected
- in any way.
-
- I don't think that a moderated group will necessarily be "fascist,"
- but those who do object to moderated groups on principle can just keep
- reading sci.physics instead.
-
- It is my hope that we can find a middle ground between Phys. Rev.
- Letters and a public restroom wall. At any rate, I'm disturbed by the
- fact that so very few physicists actually use sci.physics; I have to
- conclude that the newsgroup just isn't a very good place to talk about
- physics.
-
-
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
- (510) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
- austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem!
-