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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: research-level only?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.024027.29346@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <24790@galaxy.ucr.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:40:27 GMT
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- In article <24790@galaxy.ucr.edu> baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
- [examples deleted]
-
- >like other moderators to say a bit more about what they think the group
- >should be like. There seems to be a sentiment among the moderators that
- >about 20 posts a day is a nice volume level, and if that were a goal
- >each moderator would aim to accept about 5 posts a day, and deal with the
- >quality issue accordingly, though one shouldn't be too constipated about this
- >sort of thing.
-
- This is a good point. Though I agree we should probably be relaxed about
- specific numbers, 5 per day seems about right. And I think it is
- suitable to be more relaxed about 'hoary chestnuts' of limited
- duration if the candidate stream is 6 per person per
- day rather than 40 per person per day.
-
- My feeling, though, is this is not exactly Physics-101 (nor is
- sci.physics for that matter). This medium is notoriously bad
- at 'teaching' basic matters that one should probably get from
- more standard sources. This is simply because much of the information is
- incomplete or misleading or bad. Usenet is definitely not
- a substitute for actually learning something.
-
- So, my feeling is that 'hoary old chestnuts' should not be included
- if there is a strong chance the audience is going to groan
- "Oh, I've seen that four thousand times", even if it is not
- explicitly in the FAQ. Most of the SR 'paradoxes' seem to come
- under this heading. It seems that SR paradoxes are sci.physics's
- counterpart to sci.math's 'Monte Hall problem'.
-
- I hope sci.physics.research becomes a medium place where people can
- comfortably discuss more interesting matters of physics.
-
- dale bass
-
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