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- From: boswell@well.sf.ca.us (Gerard Van der Leun)
- Subject: Re: DO PHYSICS DON'T TALK ABOUT MODERATING IT!
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:49:26 GMT
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- In article <C0IznA.8p7@well.sf.ca.us>, sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack
- Sarfatti) wrote:
- >
- >
- > Will some one do a statistical analysis of all the mediocre hack level
- > academic apparatchuk committee blather about moderating the conference
- > without any real idea - and many of these same pundits only make snide
- > ad-hominums when any one tries to present an original physics thought.
-
- I think that the first order of business is to do a count of all the
- mediocre crack postings throughout the group. One would think that that
- is the reason, and a good one, for spinning off a moderated group. It
- is an S/N thing. No one one the proposed moderators committee will,
- I am sure, block any original physics. It is to be hoped, however, that
- we shall not have to scan through endless self-promoting screeds
- trying to pass themselves off as "original".
-
- That's the point of the Net. Someplace for everyone to ride their hobby
- horse.
-