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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: Are there important unresolved issues?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.222932.20890@galois.mit.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 22:29:32 GMT
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- In article <MERRITT.93Jan12102855@macro.bu.edu> merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) writes:
- >
- >#In article <1993Jan11.223445.13105@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- > Sean Merritt writes:
- > >As I stated before I object to one memeber of the panel. Now I find that
- > >after the discussion I also don't have much confidence in Baez to
- > >perform as a "filter" if articles in sum are to be considered as
- > >ensembles of indistinguishable particles. Nevertheless I feel that he
- > >and Dale may have some "constructive ineterference" efffect and
- > >all my objections may be for nought.(see below)
- >
- > # Could you provide a more specific and less metaphorical explanation of
- > # why you no longer have confidence in my abilities as a filter?
- > # Certainly if a majority of people think I'm being unduly harsh on
- > # articles about interpretation of QM, I will gladly recant (as I mentioned).
- > Your analogy, and I must paraphrase, was that you would bow out if there
- > was a dispute over an article, then you proceded to to say something
- > about electrons and indistiguishable particles.
-
- Since neither of us seems to recall exactly what I said about electrons
- and indistinguishable (p)articles I think I'll drop the analogy with QM.
- I think it was probably an attempt at humor in the first place.
-
- I said I would bow out if there was a 2-2 irreconcilable split over a
- given article. The chances of this occuring are minimal; all of us
- moderators are far too busy to wrestle seriously over a single article.
- Indeed, this is certain to be true of anyone competent to moderate the
- group.
-
- >If you can't differentiate you will not be a good filter.
-
- I never meant to say I could not or would not differentiate between
- articles. I certainly would. I have posted some remarks on how I might
- do so, in order to see whether people think I am too tough, not tough
- enough, etc..
-
- > As I said above though it is much more
- > important that the criteria(for acceptance/rejection of articles)
- > are posted here before we vote.
-
- Here I agree. In particular, the "lightly moderated" idea seems to
- conflict with the idea held by some moderators that 20 posts per day is
- about right. A somewhat more precise charter of the newsgroup might be
- in order.
-