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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: research-level only?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.184112.20632@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <24790@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1993Jan9.163055.8210@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:41:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.163055.8210@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
- >In article <24790@galaxy.ucr.edu> baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
- >>
- >>I too think that sci.physics.moderated would be a better name for what
- >>I'm after, but somehow when I came back from Christmas break sci.physics.research
- >>is what it was called.
- >
- >Now that the moderators have stated their platforms, the prospect of
- >simply making sci.physics into a moderated group seems a whole lot less
- >threatening than it did at first.
- >
- >A straw poll: taking the promised platforms at their face value, just
- >how many people here would feel that their rights were being
- >unacceptably trampled if sci.physics was simply turned into a moderated
- >group?
- >
- >No sense giving up a nice monicker like sci.physics if it turns out
- >that this will benefit only a miniscule minority.
-
- I hate to belabor this point, but this is not a proposal to
- turn sci.physics into a moderated newsgroup. It is a formal
- proposal to create a *new* newsgroup with a different charter
- and a different purpose. The formal newsgroup creation process
- has been followed by Matt down to the discussion stage, which
- we are still in.
-
- However, sci.physics will still exist in all its wondrous glory.
-
- Consideration of moderating sci.physics would be separate,
- and I suspect that the support for such a move is minimal to
- nonexistent (and you'd have to find some moderators).
- I know that I, for one, do not want to have sci.physics moderated.
-
-
- dale bass
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