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In article <MERRITT.92Dec21110641@macro.bu.edu> merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) writes:

> 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.

That, in fact, is exactly what I am proposing: not that sci.physics be
eliminated, or that it be moderated, but rather that we create a new
moderated group, sci.physics.research.  sci.physics won't be affected
in any way.

I don't think that a moderated group will necessarily be "fascist,"
but those who do object to moderated groups on principle can just keep
reading sci.physics instead.

It is my hope that we can find a middle ground between Phys. Rev.
Letters and a public restroom wall.  At any rate, I'm disturbed by the
fact that so very few physicists actually use sci.physics; I have to
conclude that the newsgroup just isn't a very good place to talk about
physics.


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