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- From: snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder)
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: proposed panel of moderators
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- Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University
- References: <1iin29INN7a9@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan8.160818.19578@galois.mit.edu> <1993Jan8.174635.20821@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:32:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.174635.20821@ulrik.uio.no> jarleb@medusa.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann) writes:
- >
- >Just a thought, quite a few agree that there is too few research level
- >postings, but how many researchers are aware of usenet news ?
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- Being of the Condensed Matter Experimentalist bent, I also read
- sci.materials. I think that is a good example of how a research-
- oriented newsgroup can work. It has fewer articles, but I find
- most of them interesting and informative. It also seems to lack
- crackpots, big egos, personal insults, long-running arguments,
- and other such clutter. [And please, spare me any snide remarks
- about materials scientists being dull, uninspired engineers; while
- physicists are philosopher intellectuals.]
-
- I am in favor of the moderated newsgroup, whether it is called
- sci.physics.research, sci.physics.mainstream, or whatever.
- There will still be sci.physics and alt.sci.physics.new-theories,
- for those who feel that the moderated group is too confining.
- And for those who worry about "censorship", I would point out
- that all ideas in physics are NOT equally valid. They are
- "censored" by having to agree with existing experimental data,
- and to reduce to existing physical laws in the regimes where they
- are known to work.
-
- John
- snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu
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