Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Please take the recreational math articles elsewhere Re: Program for Calculating PI Message-ID: <1991Apr6.080615.23197@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 6 Apr 91 08:06:15 GMT References: <1991Apr4.132101.9623@cs.dal.ca> <1991Apr4.150053.29873@linus.mitre.org> <1991Apr5.064220.18509@dde.dk> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 20 Could all those posting pi and e computation article in comp.compression please _stop_? There have been over a dozen in the last couple of days, and the net has other, perfectly adequate venues for such discussions. Try sci.math. This group is targeted toward advancing the state of data compression, and it is going to be a hard enough task without having to dodge lots of noise postings. The cryptographic questions are also inappropriate here. That's why sci.crypt exists. The fact that a compression and archiving package may also include encryption capabilities doesn't make this the place to talk about them. It would be a shame to have to add the time and effort overhead of moderation just to cure a problem of inappropriate postings that simple individual self control should never have let happen in the first place. Kent, the man from xanth.