Re: On comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica being moderated [Re: Mathematica problem - generate filename automatically]


Daniel;

There is also one very important inefficiency in the Math group:

person A posts a question. Person B sees the question, spends time on it,
and finds an answer, and sends it. But because the answer does not show up
for days, then person C comes in and sees the same question with no answer
yet, and they have no way to find out that an answer is in the queue, so
person C also spends time to help, and sends the answer.
Person D comes in, and does the same, etc....It is like group of people
walking in the dark, no one sees what the other is doing.

Many times, I see the same answer being given by n different people. This
is waste of people's time. On Matlab newsgroup, when I see a question, and I
see a good answer there, then I go on to see if I help someone else who does
not have an answer yet. This way the help gets used where it is useful, and
not wasted. So I think an un-moderated Math group will result in much more
efficient use of resources, and I think it will help Mathematica become much
more popular, and it will result in more people learning more about
Mathematica, becuase more people will be involved in the discussion when
there is no such long delays.

I think everyone will benefit from free and open and unrestricted technical
discussion.

Nasser


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