From: utzoo!decvax!cca!OTA@S1-A@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Content Controversy
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2650
Posted: Thu Aug 12 16:26:39 1982
Received: Sun Aug 15 02:46:52 1982

From: Ted Anderson 
 12-Aug-82  1431	m.andrews at UCLA-Security (Richard Andrews) 	Content Controversy
Date: 12 August 1982 1423-PDT (Thursday)
From: m.andrews at UCLA-Security (Richard Andrews)
Date: 12 August 1982 1423-PDT (Thursday)
From: m.andrews (Richard Andrews)
Subject: Content Controversy
To: OTA at S1-A

     I'd just like to respond to a lot of the comments flying around on this
digest concerning what belongs and what does not.

     I've only been on this mailing list for about a month, and in that time
there have been an awful lot of messages supposedly explaining scientific
theories and phenomena, many of them contradictory.  For example, I recall
messages stating explicitly that it IS possible to tell gravitation from
acceleration, and that it IS NOT possible to tell gravitation from acceleration.
     Now I've had a couple of semesters of physics, but I'm a computer 
scientist with a strong interest in the topics that this digest is supposed to
be addressed to.  I can't follow a lot of the physics presented here, but I
think I could learn something if it is presented clearly by someone who knows
what they're talking about.  Speculation is fine if it is presented as such.

					Rich Andrews
					andrews@ucla-security