Re: this group needs to me moderated
From: Tom Potter (tdp_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/01/05
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Date: 1 Mar 2005 01:42:17 GMT
<mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
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> In article <d008om$gok$1@mail.specsol.com>, jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com
> writes:
>>mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:
>>> In article <1109475685.905697.192350@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
>>> boo@fractalfreak.com writes:
>>> >Just stopped in to take a peek at this group, and
>>> >it hit me. The glory days of usenet are loooong over.
>>
>>> They were long over long, long time ago. Assuming there were ever any
>>> glory days.
>>
>>> Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
>>> meron@cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the
>>> same"
>>
>>About 25 years ago before the great unwashed masses could access
>>usenet and everyone was either a scientist, engineer, teacher or a
>>student.
>>
>>The worst you had to put up with was the occasional loopy student,
>>but back then you needed at least some minimal talent to get into
>>college.
>
> Yes, indeed.
>>
>>Things began to break down when they allowed the "liberal arts" access.
>>
> :-)) So it seems.
>
> Mati Meron
How do you account for the fact
that most of the none physics groups,
other than the groups frequented by teen age boys,
are very civilized.
And how do you account for the fact that
all of the science newsgroups on the Source,
Delphi, CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL, Genie, etc.
were very civilized.
It seems to me that the problem in sci.physics
and the physics related newsgroups started
when John Baez became jealous of
the attention that Sarfatti was getting,
and began to belittle him a few years ago.
After Baez posted, and began to use,
his "crackpot Index" which was aimed at Sarfatti,
Baez became the spiritual leader of the "Attack Pack", and
many hostile, alienated people rallied around Baez
and began to attack folks, and make up web sites,
the sole purpose of which were to demean folks.
Naturally the folks counterattacked,
and after the flame wars started,
many immature people were drawn into
the physics newsgroups to join in the fun.
If Baez would renounce his odious "Crackpot Index",
and detach himself from the "Attack Pack",
the situation in the physics newsgroups
would change overnight.
-- Tom Potter http://home.earthlink.net/~tdp http://photos.yahoo.com/tdp1001
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