mrapple@quack.UUCP (Nick Sayer) (02/14/90)
gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes: > One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a >smaller distribution. Most of what undergraduates have to say is >of no interest to anyone anywhere anyway... That seems a bit draconian, especially since I'm an undergrad myself. Perhaps a better solution would be to restrict postings until a user has read news for a month. It is quite probable (as it was in my case) that most inappropriate postings are a result of inexperience, rather than bad intent. There are always exceptions, but if we had no newcomers, the signal to noise ratio would go down, would it not? -- Nick Sayer - The Goose Egg public unix - 209-952-5347 (Telebit) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ quack!mrapple@uop.edu ! President ...pacbell!uop!quack!mrapple ! National Society for the N6QQQ @ WB6V (packet radio) ! Prevention of Speed Bumps
gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) (02/15/90)
In article <5115@quack.UUCP>, mrapple@quack (Nick Sayer) writes: >> One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a >>smaller distribution. >That seems a bit draconian, especially since I'm an undergrad myself. What is really wanted is a way to weed out the idiots. Since I don't know how that could be done, I picked on the undergraduates. One site like Penn State won't do much harm, but what if all the big universities follow suit? The net will turn into an intellectual sty. Of course another possibility would be to get rid of all pedantic dimwits posting from Yale who start flamewars on sci.math, but that doesn't cover enough bases. -- ucbvax!brahms!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 Imagine what the world would be like if football was a worthy ritual performed in stadiums but mathematics was a misunderstood activity ignored by almost all.