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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Splitting physics conference&multiple listings.
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:36:00 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
- Lines: 38
- Message-ID: <1drjqgINNibu@chnews.intel.com>
- References: <BxIM4v.26L@well.sf.ca.us>
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- In article <BxIM4v.26L@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- >I suggest that sci.physics be split into three sub-conferences:
-
- First of all, they're newsgroups, not conferences, no
- matter what your vendor-copyrighted software wants to
- believe;
-
- second, except for those times we disagree on issues of
- no import, the volume isn't large enough to mandate a
- split;
-
- third, if your suggested groups were any more silly they'd
- be in the new Disney movie or an Erich von Danneken book.
-
- >I volunteer to edit 2.
-
- BWAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAAAAAAAAA.
-
- >I notice lots of multiple postings between sci. math and sci.physics - yet
- >when I put some optics related stuff in sci.optics I was immediately jumped
- >upon for wasting bit space with multiple listings - what gives?
- >I was told that the objection had nothing to do with
- >content or value of the posting.
-
- What gives is that they're even more clueless than you are.
- Crosspostings don't take up significantly more space than
- unitary postings, except on pathological news-storage systems,
- wherein the implementor has brought his inefficiencies wholly
- upon himself.
-
- >PS the review of Gleick's book etc. would be in 3 - I
- >volunteer to edit 3 as well.
-
- Create them as alt.* groups and see how they run before you
- try to alter the fabric of the net.universe.
-
- --Blair
- "IMHO"
-