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March 9, 2004

Poll for sci.physics.strings

Posted by Urs Schreiber

Probably everybody has seen the Call for Votes for the creation of a new USENET newsgroup with the proposed name ‘sci.physics.strings’ which was announced here before and which is supposed to be a place for interesting online discussion of string theory for researchers, graduate students and everybody else who is interested.

Votes are simply submitted by email, following the instructions given here. Deadline is 16 Mar 2004.

Posted at March 9, 2004 1:34 PM UTC

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Re: Poll for sci.physics.strings

The poll has given a positive result!

The group sci.physics.strings will be created in about a week. The group’s homepage is http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~motl/sps/. There the group’s charter and rationale can be found as well as the submission address and an address to contact the moderators.

Posted by: Urs Schreiber on March 19, 2004 5:09 PM | Permalink | PGP Sig | Reply to this

Re: Poll for sci.physics.strings

Congratulations :)

Posted by: Eric on March 20, 2004 1:33 AM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Poll for sci.physics.strings

A few hours ago sci.physics.strings has started operation. It has apparently not yet appeared on all newsservers, though, and in particular won’t be listed at google groups before next week or so. But first discussions are already taking place.

Posted by: Urs Schreiber on March 26, 2004 1:20 PM | Permalink | PGP Sig | Reply to this

s.p.s. at physicsforums

The people at Physics Forums have apparently managed to make sci.physics.strings accessible on their forum software. S.p.s. at PhysicsForums can now be accessed here.


Posted by: Urs Schreiber on April 5, 2004 1:05 PM | Permalink | PGP Sig | Reply to this

s.p.s. at physicsforums

The people at Physics Forums have apparently managed to make sci.physics.strings accessible on their forum software. S.p.s. at PhysicsForums can now be accessed here.


Posted by: Urs Schreiber on April 5, 2004 1:06 PM | Permalink | PGP Sig | Reply to this

Re: Poll for sci.physics.strings

We at physicsforums plan on building in full LaTeX support for the usenet group; posts in s.p.s using LaTeX will automatically be parsed and inline images will be created from the LaTeX. We will probably also be moderating s.p.s posts originating from our site.

- Warren

Posted by: Warren Craddock on April 6, 2004 2:14 AM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Poll for sci.physics.strings

Does sps need new moderators, or simply it is dead?

Posted by: Alejandro Rivero on July 27, 2007 11:12 PM | Permalink | Reply to this