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- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Path: sparky!uunet!rosevax!texan!bill
- From: bill@texan.rosemount.com (William Hawkins)
- Subject: Thanks for the quality
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.055619.17974@rosevax.rosemount.com>
- Sender: news@rosevax.rosemount.com (USENET News administrator)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: texan
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:56:19 GMT
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- For those of you who have Jon Noring, or anything with alt in the
- newsgroups list, in a kill file; he has made a posting to this
- group. It seems that his friend (acquaintance?) Dr. Puthoff has
- suggested "vacuum energy" as the source of energy without ashes.
- In fairness to Jon, the posting is quite reasonable, by 'net
- standards. But it probably marks the end of the quality of this
- group, which has enjoyed unusual freedom from cross posting. It
- has been a group whose "signal" has been strong enough to overwhelm
- the noise generators. (I hope I'm wrong about using the past tense.)
- Tom Droege and Dieter Britz are an inspiration to those of us who only
- sit and read. Others contribute to the high signal content, but
- I think that those two stand out.
-
- Once the group becomes "popular" because it is mentioned in the
- entertainment news (anyone selling news for commercial considerations),
- it will join sci.space.shuttle and sci.med in the flood of postings
- from people who do not understand the science involved. You don't
- have to be a fusion scientist to have access to a newsgroup. See
- the posting of "Heavy Boots" in rec.humor.funny (recent) for some
- examples of how far away from science you can get, or almost any
- other sci group.
-
- Any ideas on how to stem the tide? Should there be an "accept" as
- well as a "kill" function? Send your replies to me, rather than
- posting to the group, and I will summarize.
-
- Bill Hawkins bill@texan.rosemount.com Work/Voicemail 612 895-2085
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