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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,news.groups,alt.sci.physics.new-theories
- Subject: Re: How about sci.physics.speculation as well?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.003248.1845@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 00:32:48 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.023635.8057@netcom.com>
- Sender: news@rhrk.uni-kl.de
- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- I took sci.misc out of the header.
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- In article <1993Jan8.023635.8057@netcom.com>, noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:
- [..]
- >Now, even with this tirade, I have no problem with a moderated newsgroup
- >devoted to discussion of "orthodox" physics only (I won't even attempt to
- >define orthodox, btw), as long as this is stated above board. And let me
- >go on to offer an olive branch and propose that along-side a
- >sci.physics.research (it should really be called sci.physics.orthodox), that
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >a parallel moderated newsgroup, called sci.physics.speculations be created
- >as well (I'd be happy to be a moderator for such a group).
-
- sci.physics.orthodox is a bad name, as it has a negative taste.
- ("Ah, that's where the old orthodox physicists post, those with the
- spider webs on their paradigms.") It's almost as bad as calling your
- proposed s.p.speculations group s.p.crackpot instead.
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- "Pink"
- (Peter Ustinov's answer to "Skin Color" on his US immigration form)
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