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- From: orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne)
- Subject: Re: Natural Language newsgroup charter
- References: <1jvq1jINNidk@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <63725@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:58:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.145817.11660@reed.edu>
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- (Supposedly exhaustive list of "the" worthwhile topics in NLP deleted.)
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- TERRY@CS.UMD.EDU (Terry Gaasterland) jeers:
- : I think that the clarifications above, or some instantiation of them,
- : should be made part of the charter so that unfocused, unprofessional,
- : and/or rampantly unscientific discussion can be moderated through peer
- : pressure with references to the charter.
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- Sez you, pal. Can you say that you are always focused, professional and
- scientific? If so, go some place relaxing, and try to loosen up.
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- One of the things I am looking forward to about this group would be an
- atmosphere of expressive freedom. I would like to be able to ask about
- things that have me confused and at a crossroads as to what to do.
- I would like to have elaborate tangents about personal projects, with all
- due regard to NLP, without some retentive projecting their nervous tensions
- and neurotic stresses into the thread as you propose above.
- And I would especially like to have mightily unscientific discussions
- about wacky experimental projects that did something once and never, ever,
- ever did that again.
- Deal with it.
-
- If you want stoic, uptight and academic, stick with the moderated
- comp.ai.nlang-know-rep. On the other hand, if I have misinterpreted your
- posting as dogmatic academic cliquery, let me apologize and assure you that
- no flames were intended.
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- Prometheus Hawthorne - Jones (orpheus@reed.edu)
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