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

Old Man wrote:
[snip]
> 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.

Lessee here: So, the password appears on each and every
post that gets through. And this is supposed to prevent
kooks from posting? Well, I suppose anybody who is too
stupid to do a cut and paste...

While I agree with the notion, the implementation seems
to have a flaw.
Socks

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