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- From: wolf@doppel.first.gmd.de (Wolfgang Koehler)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,news.groups
- Subject: Re: Atropos needed (was: Reluctant call for moderation of sci.physics)
- Message-ID: <WOLF.92Dec23222717@doppel.first.gmd.de>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:27:17 GMT
- References: <MATT.92Dec15152210@physics.berkeley.edu>
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- <COLUMBUS.92Dec16103152@strident.think.com>
- <1992Dec20.202022.26659@galois.mit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu's message of 20 Dec 92 20:20:22 GMT
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- Since the clouds over sci.physics are growing I thought about jumping into
- this discussion.
- I always felt that the traffic in this newsgroup is too large and the amount
- of garbage one has to shuffle to find out something interesting is constantly
- growing (garbage = Abian, Hanna-Maria, Number of religious physicists...)
- So, I would appreciate some moderation.
- However, on the other hand this group lives from the broad spectrum of
- many *very different* ideas and controvers discussion (also flames included)
- and this makes me loving it (mostly as a reader).
- The worst thing that could happen with some rigorous moderator it
- would turn out as an electronic preprint reviewer.
- If I read the cited post correctly these fears are not groundless.
- (I should add that I appreciate J.Baez postings.)
-
- In article <1992Dec20.202022.26659@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
-
- [partially deleted]
-
- I guess I would feel comfortable having several moderators with
- good taste and considerable freedom to run things, who would be loose enough to
- keep the newsgroup FUN and strict enough to kick off *most* postings
- with low physics content and all postings with blatant misinformation, flames,
- and stuff that smells too strongly of crackpottery.
-
- For example:
- 1) No Abian, ever.
- Total agreement.
-
- 2) Sarfatti only if cleans up his act.
- Also my general opinion.
-
- 3) Discrete physics only if there are very concrete proposals.
- At this point I would be cautious.
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- 4) Interpretation of QM only if there is something NEW to say (e.g. the
- stuff Weiss mentions below).
- No.
-
- 5) Data about the SSC, but no policy disputes.
- Yes.
-
- 6) Nothing about religion, pro or con, at all.
- Ok.
-
- I hope some other readers like me will join this discussion.
-
- wolf
-
- Merry Christmas to all physicists !
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