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- From: sschaff@roc.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Stephen F. Schaffner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,news.groups,sci.misc
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: proposed panel of moderators
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 00:01:13 GMT
- References: <C0ICzs.36o@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> <1iin29INN7a9@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan8.160818.19578@galois.mit.edu> <1993Jan8.215127.4208@smsc.sony.com>
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- In article <1993Jan8.215127.4208@smsc.sony.com>, markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden) writes:
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- |> I've found the discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics
- |> to be very valuable and educational, and other discussions which would
- |> be of little interest to professionals. Are people who are intensely
- |> interested in physics but committed to some other career path (like
- |> software engineering) going to find sci.physics.research to be a
- |> more-or-less hostile environment where their curiosity is not welcome?
- |> There are always going to be new readers as well; will they find that
- |> they are not very welcome too since their topics of interest were already
- |> discussed last year and the year before (no re-re-rehashes)?
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- A practice I've seen on other moderated news groups is to close down
- controversial/high volume topics when they've been beaten to death, and only
- allow them to be reopened when some time has gone by (say, six months or a
- year).
-
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- Steve Schaffner sschaff@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
- The opinions expressed may be mine, and may not be those of SLAC,
- Stanford University, or the DOE.
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