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  3. From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.physics,news.groups
  5. Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: Are there important unresolved issues?
  6. Message-ID: <MATT.93Jan12114616@physics2.berkeley.edu>
  7. Date: 12 Jan 93 19:46:16 GMT
  8. References: <MATT.93Jan10010325@physics2.berkeley.edu> <C0qoG2.Gnu@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
  9. Reply-To: matt@physics.berkeley.edu
  10. Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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  13. In-reply-to: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz's message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:40:49 GMT
  14.  
  15. In article <C0qoG2.Gnu@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up) writes:
  16.  
  17. > I have no real objection to the name sci.physics.research.  I do, however,
  18. > have mild objections to retaining sci.physics as is.  How about renaming
  19. > sci.physics to sci.physics.misc at the same time?  
  20.  
  21. In principle, if I were allowed unlimited powers of social
  22. engineering, I think sci.physics.misc would be a good name for the
  23. moderated physics newsgroup, with sci.physics.misc.d (for example) for
  24. the unmoderated group that is now called sci.physics.
  25.  
  26. In practice, I think that there are a fair number of people who like
  27. sci.physics as it is, and who don't want it to be altered in any way.
  28. I think we should respect their wishes, and that we ought to just
  29. create a new group, and not change sci.physics at all.
  30.  
  31. Some day, it will probably be necessary (due to increased traffic) to
  32. do a complete reorganization of the physics newsgroups; when that day
  33. comes, then maybe it will be time to talk about a new name for the
  34. unmoderated discussion group.
  35. --
  36. Matthew Austern                   Just keep yelling until you attract a
  37. (510) 644-2618                    crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
  38. austern@lbl.bitnet                faction, an army!  If you don't have any
  39. matt@physics.berkeley.edu         solutions, become a part of the problem!
  40.