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- From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: in favor of a moderated physics group
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.192802.25710@novell.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:28:02 GMT
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- In article <5620032@hplsla.hp.com> dougp@hplsla.hp.com (Doug Passey) writes:
- >I am no longer actively involved in physics, although my degrees are in the
- >field. I am now a software engineer, but like to keep up with developments in
- >physics as best I can.
- >
- >This notes group is a joke! There are more postings here each day then on
- >the rec.arts.startrek groups ... come on , we're talking physics here ... there
- >can't be that much new, interesting stuff each day! I don't like to have
- >to sort out the crackpot stuff from the interesting news. I would welcome
- >a moderated conference to filter out the junk ... but I would hope
- >that interesting news is not filtered out as being to low level for a
- >"research" news group. I hope the moderators will keep in mind those of us
- >who only browse this group and are not working physicists and not overly
- >restrict the postings ... just filter out the crackpots.
-
- I have been trying to stay away from this because i think the whole moderation
- discussion is a bunch of hogwash. But to this message i must reply.
-
- What is "junk?" Who are the "crackpots?" I can understand completely that you
- do not like to read some posts on the net, but maybe I do. I do not think it
- unreasonable to ask you to press the 'n' key a few dozen (hundred, thousand,
- etc...) times, or to set up your kill file appropriately. "Junk" as you (or
- maybe as i) would describe it is not so to others, and there arguably are NO
- "crackpots" in the world (please allow me to play devil's ---read Abian's---
- advocate for just a moment).
-
- You are your own best moderator. If you don't like what your are reading,
- either sound off and try to point out what is wrong, or just don't read it. But
- do not try to get it banned from the net as you may be curtailing the interest
- of another.
-
- I just had to chime in on this one because of the reference about not overly
- restricting working physicists but rather filtering the crackpots. Watch out,
- it has been said many times that working physicists ARE crackpots...
-
- dks.
-
- ps. If you don't like what is on your T.V. set, TURN IT OFF!!! If that ON/OFF
- button is too hard to use, PULL THE PLUG. That'll do it for sure!
-