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

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, monir wrote:
On Dec 20, 11:33 pm, William Elliot <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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!

They've asked not to cross post between sci.math and their newsgroup.
I honor that by working out my problem first at sci.math. If I
don't get an answer, at least I get a better version to ask their
newsgroup.

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!

It doesn't take an expert to weed sci.math; only persistence and
dedication. None of us have the time and the virtue required. Do you?

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.

If you got it up and running and kept it running for awhile, the junk
traffic would fall off and you should be able to get volunteers to trade
off days with you like the rotating moderators at sci.math.research. On
second thought, it would take awhile for the newsgroup to build some
traffic. Thus it shouldn't be hard to weed out the junk as traffic
increases and cranks learn to stay away.

Do you know students or friends who'd help you get it started?
You could put an appeal in this newsgroup for assistant moderators.

The important part is the first step: getting the newsgroup registered and
up and running. No need to advertise it at first. Give email invitations
to sci.math posters who'd you like to have in your group. Actually, now
that I think about it, a new newsgroup that's moderated would be much much
easier than suddenly moderating sci.math with it's volume of noise.

Do you know the in's and out's of establishing a newsgroup?
What if you started sci.math.mod as a moderated newsgroup
to see how doable it may be? Hey, come on, do us a favor!

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!!!

One moderator who maintains the right of free speech, disembowels
obnoxious posters. Yes, she's got software that 'dsmbwls bnxs pstrs'
which allows both freedom of speech, notifies others in the 'sbjct' line
of the gore and annoys the rude poster that he had better have guts enough
to post.

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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