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- From: leffler@physics.ubc.ca (Steve Leffler )
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: in favor of a moderated physics group
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:35:59 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- References: <1993Jan10.042134.9221@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <5620032@hplsla.hp.com> <1993Jan11.192802.25710@novell.com>
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- dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Whoa! Nobody is trying to ban ANYTHING from the net. The moderation
- discussion is about creating a new group to supplement sci.physics, not
- replacing sci.physics with a moderated group. Those who want to read junk and
- crackpot articles are welcome to continue reading them on sci.physics. Those
- of us who do not want to have to push the n key a few hundred times to skip
- over junk can read serious physics on sci.physics.research.
-
- ---Steven Leffler
- leffler@physics.ubc.ca
-
-