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- From: matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: RFD: sci.physics.research moderated
- Message-ID: <MATT.92Dec18101145@physics.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 18:11:45 GMT
- References: <1gqqqjINN9ii@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Dec18.084346.23698@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: firth@sei.cmu.edu's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:43:46 EST
-
- In article <1992Dec18.084346.23698@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
-
- > What's fringe and what isn't? For example, on the QM stuff I think Mr
- > Budnik is as wrong as Mr Abian, and he probably thinks the same about
- > me. But it does us good to have our views seriously challenged from
- > time to time, from no matter what perspective. In my view, there's
- > already too much smug orthodoxy in this group; if dissent - even crank
- > dissent - is stifled, it will just get more smug and very boring.
-
- In case I haven't made this clear, I am *not* proposing that
- sci.physics be replaced with sci.physics.research. I am proposing
- that sci.physics.research be created and that it and sci.physics
- coexist.
-
- Those who prefer an unmoderated newsgroup can simply continue to read
- sci.physics.
-
- --
- 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!
-