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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Parapsychology
Message-ID: <615@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 18:06:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 18:06:51 1985
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Summary: I don't want to read net.psi


In article <7000086@inmet.UUCP> nrh@inmet.UUCP writes:
>NO! Without going into the merits of psi itself, I suggest that the net is
>not an appropriate medium.  Such discussions would surely degenerate into
>the "I can TOO tell in advance when a phone will ring" and "My Aunt Tillie
>could cause cats to barf by staring at them" assertions, followed,
>of course, by the "Oh yeah?  Psi is garbage.  Says so right here" from
>the skeptical crowd.  
>
>In other groups, such as net.physics, these arguments are replaced
>by something else (orthodox physics arguments).

If only they were!  The point of creating net.psi is not because I want
to read articles about it, but because I (and many others) don't want
to read about it.  It is much the same rationale as that behind net.origins
or net.abortion.  There are those who are interested, as witness the
fact that articles get posted on the subject -- to net.physics,
net.philosophy, and who knows where else.  Let's give it a home where
those who want to deal with it can, and the rest of us can ignore it.

A mailing list might work, but I am dubious.  Ditto for a moderated group.
In any event, I am certainly not interested in organizing such.