In article <32F896B7.65FB at ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr>, Athel <athel at IR2CBM.CNRS-
MRS.FR> writes
>opportunity to post free advertisements?) I also disagree with Herbert
>that refusing irrelevant (but serious) messages is censorship: would he
>cry Censorship if his monumental treatise on Wild Flowers of the
>Aberystwyth Area was refused publication by the Journal of Mathematical
Great project, you know we've got some rare ones round here.
>Biology on the grounds that it was outside their scope. Defining the
>scope of a journal or a news group and requiring contributors to adhere
But the point is, news groups are not like journals, they're something
else. There is no peer group looking down, judging the guilty from the
not guilty. Now I know that both Paul and Athel wouldn't actually censor
any metabolic material, and most likely would censor any scientific
material that comes into the group but there is a principal at stake.
Anybody can contribute to a newsgroup, there is no 'class' distinction,
everyone is treated equally, from Joe bloggs (poor old joe) to nobel
prize winners. In fact one of the nice things is that you don't know who
or what is on the other end.
>to it is just common sense, not censorship. I agree with the rest of
>what John says, as well.
It does make common sense what has been said by John and Athel but it
just doesn't feel right. I'll go along with the majority decision of
course, but at least every body knows what I think about it.
>>>One other point: I agree with John that this news group is beginning to
>look more lively, but I notice that of the nine messages so far posted
>in February not a single one is concerned with metabolism! Doesn't
>anyone have any points they want to make about metabolism, metabolic
>control analysis, biothermokinetics, metabolic diseases, etc.? If not,
>maybe we should disband...
I promise that the next message I send will be about protoplasm!
>>Athel
>Herbert
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