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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: proposed panel of moderators
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 03:10:09 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <MATT.93Jan6101442@physics2.berkeley.edu> <MERRITT.93Jan6142225@macro.bu.edu> <93006.145551MRG3@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- In article <93006.145551MRG3@psuvm.psu.edu> <MRG3@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- -In article <MERRITT.93Jan6142225@macro.bu.edu>, merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean
- -Merritt) says:
- ->...
- ->
- ->$ Dale Bass (crb7q@virginia.edu)
- ->
- ->I reject DB as a moderator I suggest another should be chosen.
- ->My reason is that based on Mr. Bass' contribution to this group
- ->I find that his posts are more noise than signal.
- -> ----------------------------------------
- ->
- ->I find Mr. Bass' credentials unreproachable and I don't object
- ->to his moderation on that basis. My objection is that in as much as
- ->a moderator's function is to improve the S/N I fundementally disagree
- ->with his views (based on his past post) as to what is signal and
- ->what is noise.
- ->
- -Well, I accept Dale Base as a moderator. I think he has reponded
- -appropriately to posts with and without content, as well as to
- -personal attacks. He has demonstrated a broad base of
- -knowledge. (I was actually surprised to learn that he was not
- -a tenured faculty member :>). I also value his posts
- -for their entertainment value (perhaps because I have not been
- -a target).
-
- PSU.
-
- --Blair
- "'Nuff said."
-