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  2. From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: moderating sci.physics - physics is everything - really moderating sci.physics.moderated
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec27.160743.1232@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Date: 27 Dec 92 16:07:43 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec23.015841.11925@u.washington.edu> <1992Dec24.053044.2763@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Dec27.051444.767@dmp.csiro.au>
  8. Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
  9. Organization: University of Virginia
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  12. In article <1992Dec27.051444.767@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
  13. >
  14. >>sidles@stein.u.washington.edu (John Sidles) writes:
  15. >>: 
  16. >>: Not that sci.physics is perfect... it just isn't clear that
  17. >>: moderation will improve it.  The main problem seems to be a
  18. >>: paucity of well thought out, interesting & informative postings,
  19. >>: not an excess of eccentric ones.
  20. >
  21. >Is there going to be moderation? - I hope not.
  22. >
  23. >Moderation implies that 1 or 5 or 20 people will define
  24. >what physics "is" in this group.
  25.  
  26.      Please.  The proposal on the table is *not* to moderate sci.physics,
  27.      but to create a new group sci.physics.{moderated,research,whatever}.
  28.      It will not affect the mild anarchy here.
  29.  
  30.                              dale bass
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  32. C. R. Bass                                          crb7q@virginia.edu        
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