[ale] OT

[James Sumners]

It's not a discussion site. Questions should have a definitive answer.

On Saturday, July 9, 2011, Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found the stackexchange quite impressive and got some useful
> information out of it. They are quit picky as far as the questions are
> concerned. In their biology section I tried to post the following
> question' "What environmental pressures would trigger the evolution of
> intelligence? Scarce resources, competition, underdog status?" The
> question was rejected as not up to their standards. What did I do
> wrong? I know that this question haunts evolutionary biologists, and I
> tried to start a dialog, rather than have a pertinent answer.
>
> Cor
>
> On 6/8/11, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
>> astronomy.stackexchange.com is now available!
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:13:49 -0400
>> Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks guys. I have not checked all of the suggestions, but at least
>>> one of them (http://physics.stackexchange.com/) seems right o target.
>>> Cor van Dijk
>>>
>>> On 6/4/11, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
>>> > On Thursday 02 June 2011, Ed Cashin wrote:
>>> >> Maybe usenet is not quite dead yet?  I always preferred nntp to
>>> >> mailing lists, etc., for online expert discussions.
>>> >
>>> > Not dead, but only groups that were very healthy and thriving ~five
>>> > years ago still have much traffic. Almost all of the marginal niche
>>> > topic groups appear quite dead. A few will wake up for an
>>> > intersting question but many are as dead as they look.
>>> >
>>> >> In your shoes I'd check whether "sci.astro" or "sci.physics"
>>> >> newsgroups are still available, but in attempting to find out
>>> >> those names, I noticed this page:
>>> >
>>> > Both are still viable groups receiving traffic.
>>> >
>>> >>   http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_newsgroup.html
>>> >>
>>> >> ... which might be interesting to you.
>>> >
>>> > Another potentially usefull tool is here.
>>> > http://groupsearch.alt-config.net/engine.html
>>> >
>>> > Shows that "sci.astro" and "sci.physics" are both very well
>>> > propagated (the tools original function) and on almost all
>>> > servers.  Also by using the partial match option, one can see there
>>> > are no real groups with "cosmology" in the name. Handfull of joke
>>> > groups but none on enough servers to be usefull.
>>> > --
>>> > William
>>> >
>>> >
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