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- From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest)
- Subject: Re: RFD: sci.physics.research moderated
- In-Reply-To: fxt@helios.ucsc.edu's message of 17 Dec 1992 21:18:11 GMT
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 16:44:39
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- In article <foo> fxt@helios.ucsc.edu (oxide owner) writes:
- > From: matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- > This is a request for discussion about creating a new moderated group
- > for discussion of physics.
-
- a yes vote from me. i agree with the fellow (sorry cant seem to find the
- article) who made the suggestion that all submissions be posted in either
- sci.physics.moderated, sci.physics, or alt.physics.new-theories.
-
- Yes. I like the idea of a tripartite group, mainly to sort out the different
- kinds of stuff without having to swim through it all. Sci.physics used to
- have almost as much volume as now, but a much lower noise level. I'd like
- to see that come back. Remember about six months ago, when several
- professors posted that they no longer had the time to subscribe?
-
-
- > As long as an
- > article is "serious" (I can't define it, but I know it when I see it)
- > and is related to physics, I think that should be good enough.
-
- yep. just enough knife's edge to stop the abian's, the hannu's, the snarfy's,
- the dale versus blair (for example) flame fests, the mega group cross
- posters, the verbage denoted to the relationship of religion and physics,
- and the qm and/or sr paradox specialists.
-
- Yes. It would be nice to have a special group of interest primarily
- to trained physicists, with a much lower volume. But I would hope the
- moderation would stay pretty light -- I don't want the moderated group
- to become a `club' that only the Sneetches with Stars can post to.
-
- Here's how I envision a tripartite split:
-
- sci.physics.moderated [sci.physics.d?] [sci.physics.erudite :-]
- for serious discussions of interest to trained
- physicists, and questions that can *not* be
- gotten out of, say, Tipler or Halliday and Resnick
- (two freshman physics texts).
- eg people arguing about gravitational lensing
- and its use to measure the Hubble constant,
- or asking about second quantization. *new*
- relativity paradoxes.
-
- Moderated, but hopefully sparingly. Same FAQ as
- sci.physics, below, but posted monthly?
-
- I'd like this to become much like sci.optics --
- relatively low volume, but with lots of `serious'
- people in the field subscribing.
-
- sci.physics
- for most questions and discussions about systems
- that are thought to be well understood, eg
- Newtonian physics, trains entering tunnels,
- and that sort of thing. Also cross-posts that
- are relevant to physics from, eg, rec.autos.
- Big FAQ, frequently (biweekly?) posted.
- Not moderated.
-
- I'd probably subscribe to this, but wouldn't expect,
- for example, my thesis advisor (if he used
- computers at all) to wade through the higher
- volume I'd expect here.
-
- sci.physics.new-theories [sci.physics.alternative?]
- for anything that's counter to the generally
- held beliefs of the physics community (eg
- Beckmann relativity, Hannu's space-potato, etc.)
- Hopefully, providing a separate forum for
- these ideas would keep the flamage level
- down, and allow more interesting discussions
- of 'em, much as sci.physics.fusion has.
- Not moderated.
-
- Again, I'd probably subscribe to this, but wouldn't
- expect everyone to. In particular, I'd hope the
- ``this-is-different-so-it's-just-plain-wrong'' flamage
- would go down a bit, while posters would still
- criticize and share one anothers' theories.
-
- So how's it sound? Any other ideas?
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