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- From: matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,news.groups
- Subject: Re: Reluctant call moder(and sci.physics.research-NOT!)
- Date: 24 Dec 92 14:24:33
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu's message of Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:22:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.182252.16866@cs.wayne.edu> atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems) writes:
-
- > But many (including myself) who support the creation of a new
- > newsgroup are interested in having a forum for discussing
- > research-related topics that would be attractive to a larger
- > fraction of research physicists than currently have the patience to
- > sift through the incredible volume of traffic on this group.
-
- This, I think, is the real point: we can talk all we want about how
- there is no difficulty with using sci.physics for professional
- discussions about physics, but the evidence, quite simply, doesn't
- support that conclusion.
-
- Most physicists nowadays have access to computers that are linked to
- the Internet, and use of the Internet is growing---the preprint
- bulletin boards, for example, have become popular very quickly.
- However, almost no physicists choose to use sci.physics for
- discussions; it just isn't a hospitable environment.
-
- Sci.physics does serve some purposes well, and I'm not proposing to
- eliminate it or change it in any way. It has, however, demonstrably
- failed to be a place where it is convenient for physicists to talk to
- each other about physics. A new newsgroup is needed for that purpose.
- --
- 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!
-