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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: Re: Reluctant call moder(and sci.physics.research-NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.172445.20809@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <D0s0VB1w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> <1992Dec24.074121.11426@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <SRCTRAN.92Dec24112819@world.std.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:24:45 GMT
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- In article <SRCTRAN.92Dec24112819@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
- >Yea, well maybe the tag team was exposed to a little physics, if nothing
- >else. It sure beats the horoscopes they are exposed to everyday.
- >
- > It is the hope of many that the Internet over time be more accessible
- >to the general public, so that more people can benefit from this valuable
- >information resource. The downside is that more people will have access
- >to USENET, which will lead to more "stupid" questions and "stupid" postings.
- >Hopefully areas like sci.physics won't be flooded with such stuff.
- >And if so, I think it is not a high price to pay to have to deal with
- >these distractions from "serious" physics. Physicists in general do a
- >lousy job of explaining physics to the general public, and can learn much
- >from the "stupid" questions that are posted, in terms of public misconceptions.
- >Thus, my pitch to keep sci.physics as is and unmoderated.
-
- I think most of the serious physicists want to create a *new* newsgroup
- that is moderated. I don't see any problems in doing so. However, the
- trouble comes in when these same physicist stop reading the sci.physics
- newsgroup. That would create an environment where the blind lead the blind.
- I somehow feel that sci.physics for all the noise that is generated is still
- a creative environment (or to quote Freeman Dyson out of context, a place
- where the unpredictable can happen; which is what the real physicists should
- be striving for in the first place !). So I think a new moderated should
- be created and as gratuitiy for all of us amateurs voting YES, the physicist
- should also man the sci.physics newsgroup to answer the questions.
-