Urs
Dec17-03, 12:06 PM
We'd like to call your attention to a proposal for a new usenet newsgroup in the sci.physics.* hierarchy with the proposed name being "sci.physics.strings".
This new group is supposed to provide a place for intensive discussion of string theory and related topics by people working in the field as well as interested laymen.
In order to create such a new usenet group the proposed group's charter has to go through a discussion period at "news.groups", which can be accessed for instance via
news.groups (http://groups.google.de/groups?&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=news.groups).
You can find and discuss the proposed charter of sci.physics.strings as well as the rationale for its creation at
sci.physics.strings proposal on news.groups (http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=1071590601.19921%40isc.org)
and
news.group discussion on sci.physics.strings (http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=brnv2b%245hkg7%241%40ID-53145.news.uni-berlin.de&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fselm%3Dbrnv2b%25245hkg7%25241%2540ID-53145.news.uni-berlin.de)
After the discussion period (which will last presumably about three to six weeks) there will be a general poll where everybody is asked to vote in favour or against the creation of sci.physics.strings on usenet. We'd like to kindly invite everybody with an interest in string theory or string theory related topics to have a look at the above proposal and to participate in the voting.
Since a majority of 2/3 of the valid votes must be in favor of the creation of sci.physics.strings, we ask everybody who would enjoy seeing interesting online discussion of string theory to participate in the voting.
We have evidence that a discussion forum is missing which attracts more of the experts that are actively working on string theory than is currently the case with existing string theory fora. We think that existing fora such as this one will all benefit from a general increase of high quality public online discussion of string theory by string theorists.
P.S.
General information on the nature of usenet discussion fora is given at
USENET FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/) .
More information on the general procedure for creating new usenet newsgroups can be found here (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/creating-newsgroups/part1/).
This new group is supposed to provide a place for intensive discussion of string theory and related topics by people working in the field as well as interested laymen.
In order to create such a new usenet group the proposed group's charter has to go through a discussion period at "news.groups", which can be accessed for instance via
news.groups (http://groups.google.de/groups?&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=news.groups).
You can find and discuss the proposed charter of sci.physics.strings as well as the rationale for its creation at
sci.physics.strings proposal on news.groups (http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=1071590601.19921%40isc.org)
and
news.group discussion on sci.physics.strings (http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=brnv2b%245hkg7%241%40ID-53145.news.uni-berlin.de&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fselm%3Dbrnv2b%25245hkg7%25241%2540ID-53145.news.uni-berlin.de)
After the discussion period (which will last presumably about three to six weeks) there will be a general poll where everybody is asked to vote in favour or against the creation of sci.physics.strings on usenet. We'd like to kindly invite everybody with an interest in string theory or string theory related topics to have a look at the above proposal and to participate in the voting.
Since a majority of 2/3 of the valid votes must be in favor of the creation of sci.physics.strings, we ask everybody who would enjoy seeing interesting online discussion of string theory to participate in the voting.
We have evidence that a discussion forum is missing which attracts more of the experts that are actively working on string theory than is currently the case with existing string theory fora. We think that existing fora such as this one will all benefit from a general increase of high quality public online discussion of string theory by string theorists.
P.S.
General information on the nature of usenet discussion fora is given at
USENET FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/) .
More information on the general procedure for creating new usenet newsgroups can be found here (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/creating-newsgroups/part1/).