Re: !!! TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN !!!

On Dec 20, 11:33 pm, William Elliot <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, quasi wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:41:44 -0800 (PST), monir <mon...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

This is a sci.math public discussion group, and it should remain just
that!

Does anyone know if there are moderators for this forum ??

This is an unmoderated usenet group.

sci.math.research is well moderated, has little traffic and high quality.
alt.algebra.help is moderated, has some traffic and diminished scope.

Perhaps you'd like to start a moderated sci.math.mod newsgroup that's like
sci.math yet less demanding that sci.math.research.  We'd all love you
for it.

I would just ignore the junk -- delete those posts quickly without
even opening them, assuming you can recognize the type of post by the
title or by the author's name.

Don't read anything with [] in the subject, of my replies.
It means bah bah bad bah, or occasionally some OT humor.



Despite all the craziness, lots of interesting math discussions also
take place.

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1)>>sci.math.research is well moderated, has little traffic and high
quality.
Are you suggesting that one should switch to those DGs to avoid non-
math, nonsense, non-relevant and irritating threads ??
The concern is that this would increase the traffic there and would
add to the moderators' workload and slows down the whole thing.
Further, most of the math questions are not necessarily "research"
questions!

2)>>Perhaps you'd like to start a moderated sci.math.mod newsgroup
that's like
>>sci.math yet less demanding that sci.math.research. We'd all
love you for it.
I concur. It's an excellent idea if you can convince the experts or
semi-experts to volunteer! The task would be to simply open the
threads and decide which is a math question appropriate for posting in
the sci.math.mod DG, and which should be blocked, deleted or returned
to sender!
We all agree that each thread is relevant and important to its author.
The question here is relevancy!
Why "semi-expert" and not "administrator" ? Well, the individual(s)
should be able to quickly distinguish between, for example, a "sales"
post and a "travelling salesman" question dealing with minimization
and simulated annealing method.

3) It's difficult sometimes to recognize the type of post by the title
or to ignore the junk altogether. I recall recently someone in this
forum tried to make the argument that 1^3=2 (or something like that!).
As it turned out, it was a theological-concept / magic-trick and not a
math question!! I had to open the thread just to make sure that I
hadn't missed something that important in my education!!!

4) I agree with you that despite all the craziness, lots of
interesting math discussions also
take place. Hope the majority of participants would agree that a
moderated sci.math DG would make it even more interesting and more
useful.

Regards.
Monir
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