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- From: kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball)
- Subject: Re: Let's add some sci.math.* groups
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:48:22 GMT
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- Robert D. Silverman (bs@gauss.mitre.org) wrote:
- :
- : Mathematics is getting too specialized as it is. Let's not make it
- : worse.
- :
- : I *might* vote for a split into sci.math, and sci.math.recreational,
- : as well as keeping sci.math.research.
- :
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- This sounds like a good idea.
- Not everyone who reads this group is a mathematician by trade,
- and over-dividing sci.math will ruin its eclectic nature.
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- -- tdk
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