Re: Interested in a moderated theory forum?

From: Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:41:38 -0800
Message-ID: <buhbtp$bt01j$1@ID-152540.news.uni-berlin.de>

>>Make sure you
>>calibrate your expectations, no forum is gonna have the desired
>>qualities to give you more than a social club, and eventually a few
>>hints and points to alternative views. Real knowledge is only produced
>>in academic (peer reviewed) settings, in having to deliver software, etc.

>
>
> Ohh, go on, what's the full list?
>
> Would you say that say this "social club" never produced any knowledge
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374528888/
> ?
>

Well, if we could go back to a few centuries ...

The complexities of modern society and modern science makes specialization a necessity, and also makes amateurism unlikely to succeed in any significant endeavour.

If you disagree, please show me a post on comp.database.theory that can have some reasonable claim that scientific knowledge was being discovered and validated in this forum and state of the art advanced, cause otherwise I can show you plenty of amateurish psots :)

> Regards
> Paul Vernon
> Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services
>
>

Best,
Costin Received on Mon Jan 19 2004 - 13:41:38 CST