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From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: APS news
Message-ID: <1616@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 09:40:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 09:40:45 1985
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In article <1815@pur-phy.UUCP> piner@pur-phy.UUCP (Richard Piner) writes:
>   As the letter says, most of the news is political in nature.
>Given that most physics is funded by the government, this should
>not be surprising. I am posting this news to net.physics because
>it is news that is mostly of interest to people who follow physics.
>If any of these articles spark debate, then we may want to do our
>debating in net.politics. I don't know enough about net etiquette
>to say. In any case, this posting of "What's New" to USENET is also
>an experiment. If people outside the USA object to this sort of
>news from the states, then let me know, and I will restrict the
>distribution to the USA. Since what goes on in Washington effects
>physics world wide, I don't expect there will be a need to limit
>distribution.

    This is the sort of thing that a lot of the world feels insulted
about.  Why do you presume, without a second thought that the US is
the center of the universe?  There has been debate about this for
a few weeks now on net.politics.  
    Perhaps we might be interested in some major announcement about
SDI or  such, but there can't be many of that importance. If there
were technical announcements, or articles, then that would be 
interesting.  However if you're just going to post listings of
contract awards, etc. please save us the phone bills of forwarding
such 'stuff'. It's just not that interesting.

Cheers,		Fred Williams