From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   William Hyde  wrote or quoted:   
   >I actually learned something in sci.physics!  That takes me back ...   
      
     But the exact date when it takes you back is not clear,   
     since people complaining that this newsgroup was turning   
     into some pointless chatter spot goes way back!   
      
   |Well, the backbone SAs botched another newsgroup changeover.  It seems   
   |quite obvious that sci.physics should be renamed talk.physics, and the   
   |sooner the better.  The few physics articles--even when stretching the   
   |meaning of the word as much as rumor used to be stretched--could just   
   |as well be accommodated in sci.misc.   
   |   
   |ucbvax!brahms!weemba   Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720   
      
   From: Matthew P Wiener    
   Newsgroups: net.news.group,sci.physics   
   Subject: talk.physics   
   Date: 21 Oct 1986 07:23:53 EDT   
   Article-I.D.: cartan.43   
      
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