pubkeybreaker wrote: > On Aug 18, 9:27 am, Herman Jurjus <hjur...@hetnet.nl> wrote: >> pubkeybreaker wrote: >> >>> I want to see a newsgroup that contains ONLY serious discussion about >>> mathematics below the research level. But that is only my view. >>> Others >>> can reasonably differ. >>> To those who argue that such a group would be "boring", I say to them: >>> If discussion of serious mathematics bores you, then go somewhere else. >> So what you want is not a usenet newsgroup at all, but rather >> something like the FOM mailing list, or 'Ask a Topologist', but then >> without the subject restriction? > > Such things already exist, e.g. http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/nmbrthry.html > is devoted to serious discussion of number theory. I'd like to see > something > more general.
Exactly. Do you happen to know whether they have an nntp interface, so that one could use any ordinary newsreader to read and post? (I looked, but couldn't find anything about it.)
