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From: gdelong@cvman.UUCP (Gary Delong)
Newsgroups: news.groups,misc.headlines,sci.misc,sci.physics,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fusion newgroup proposal
Summary: please, not an alt.* group
Message-ID: <546@cvman.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 13:01:00 GMT
References: <910@zorch.UU.NET>
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In article <910@zorch.UU.NET>, scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
[ First off, for the people who didn't see my original article:  I am proposing
[ creation of alt.fusion to carry discussions of the Utah cold-fusion experiment
[ in one place.  My apologies for the wide cross-posting; the groups mentioned
[ are either concerned with newsgroup creation or are locations where fusion
[ discussion is currently occurring.
[ 
[ So far, the proposal has generated a small amount of favorable response,
[ and an even smaller amount of unfavorable replies.  To address the concerns
[ of people who would like to see one place for fusion discussions but do not
[ receive the alt.* heirarchy, I am announcing here my willingness to provide
[ digests of the newsgroup for these people.
[ 
[ For those who are wondering, "why an alt newsgroup", I feel that the
[ experiment with alt.next indicated that a newsgroup can be created quickly
[ in alt in response to a hot topic and then either aliased to a 'mainstream'
[ group, ala comp.sys.next, or deleted if the topic dies down.
[ -- 
[ Scott Hazen Mueller   scott@zorch.UU.NET
[ (408) 298-6213        (pyramid|tolerant|uunet)!zorch!scott

Scott,

I agree that the topic is important and deserves maximum exposure while
the facts get shaken out of the rhetoric, but I don't think that this is
a good idea.

Many sites (including mine) do not carry the alt.* groups.  The discussion
of possible cold fusion is too important to be tucked away in the alt.*
wastelands. (I couldn't even post a reply to the alt.config followup header)
While I appreciate your offer to provide a digest of the discussion via
e-mail, I already find myself gritting my teeth over just the normal
USENET propogation delay.  Please don't add an additional delay to that.

There is a discussion going in sci.physics, which would seem to be a
reasonable place.  (If this is not a physics discussion, then I don't
know what it would take to qualify as one.)

Please.

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