🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <MATT.92Dec15152210@physics.berkeley.edu> matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes:

   In article <BCR.92Dec16000355@hfl3sn02.cern.ch> bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) writes:

   > Here! Here! I'll second this even with the name as-is.  I for one
   > normally am not subscribe to sci.physics, because it is too long and
   > redundant.  I Only read this group when I have work I'm really
   > trying to aviod doing.  I'm sure most of us are two busy to garentee
   > to read through 50+ some articles posted here a day to see what
   > passes the moderation policy criteria.  However, if we can figure
   > out a way to split that equally amoung 4-5 people I'd be happy to be
   > one of them.

>   The newsgroup soc.feminism is moderated by a panel of several people;
>   articles are randomly sent to one of the moderator.  Perhaps we could
>   do that here.  I'm sure the soc.feminism moderators would be happy to
>   help us set up the same sort of system that they have.
>
>   Incidentally, I might not have stressed this enough in my original
>   posting: we can't have a moderated newsgroup without a moderator.  It
>   is important that we get some volunteers for that position if we want
>   anything to happen.


We don't need censorship here. Everyone is quite capable of choosing 
for himself. This not a Journal of Physics. It is a great big
public-restroom-wall. People who feel that they cannot stand having
"Crackpots" should leave the group and start your own Facist/Moderated
group, which I will predict now will be a very boring place indeed.

If I want to read a refereed journal I have only to pick-up
Phys. Rev. Letters or preferably Phys. Rev. D. I get enough of
that, I read this group for the lighter side to physics. And
as someone noted to avoid work that I ought to be doing.

Abian's theories are not falseifiable. If that isn't enough, in an
Abian Universe Total Entropy decreases! It is a sad day indeed
when people of Science resort authoritarian tactics instead if
using their brains to deal with charlatans.

If this call for moderation of this group succeeds it will be a 
sad day for freedom of thought.


Sean J. Merritt.
Department of Physics Boston University
MACRO and SuperKamiokande 

--
Sean J. Merritt		         | "Every revolt is a cry of innocence    
Dept of Physics Boston University|  and an appeal to the essence of being."
merritt@macro.bu.edu             | Albert Camus, The Rebel