Re: Password for sci.physics: Problem of the Day

In sci.physics, Old Man
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on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:57:59 -0500
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> How to eliminate the trolls, crackpots, and numbskulls from
> sci.physics ?
>
> Post a new and simple physics problem at 12:01 AM every day.
> The answer should be numerical. Require that the answer be the
> first Item on the subject line of any post to sci.physics. Have the
> news server allow access to sci.physicsonly for those posts with
> the correct answer. The news server would remove the answer
> from the header before publishing. Those with incorrect answers
> would be posted to sci.physics_falsified_theories or some such.
>
> This would probably get rid of 95 % of the kooks on sci.physics.
> Certain to get rid of the likes of OsherD, Nick, and EMy.
>
> Think of the benefits to sci.physics.relativity if the problems were
> restricted to SR !
>
> [Old Man]
>

The main problem with this approach is that one would have to modify
a fair number of news servers. One could, however, put an
automoderator on the newsgroup somewhat a la talk.origins, but
even there, one runs into issues; how does one ensure that a
missive originally posted at 11:59 PM is correctly handled?

I would hope that all news servers above a certain level participate
in NTP but it's not a requirement.

And of course someone would have to maintain the automoderator.

(BTW: today's answer is 2.8 * 10^30 kg. :-) Guess the question.)

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