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Re:Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle by matthewdgreen on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:32PM (#49540426)
If I had the email address of every researcher in my field, I would never send a mass email to them describing my latest goofy idea. I would, however, send my latest goofy idea to a conference with those same reviewers (if I felt it was technically appropriate and correct.)
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Re:Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle by XorNot on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:22PM (#49541937)
I mean we use to have newsgroups which basically implemented this.

Which of course is the point: it is in fact quite similar to a mailing list, just with some extra protocol surounding it to make it manageable.

So the attempted snark about it up thread is stupid.

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Re:Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle by IAmBroom on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:21PM (#49554312)
Still inaccurate.

A paper has a (semi-formal) structure, including TITLE, AUTHORS, and the all-important ABSTRACT.

Email guarantees none of those.

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