[vsnet-chat 3697] Re: attachments

["Stan Walker" <astroman@voyager.co.nz>]

Hey Paul,

The only time I see you on the internet it's having a moan - let's look on
the brigher side of things - surely there must be some good news from UoA?
OK, it takes a little longer to download,
particularly when you're on a slow country line with milking machines and
electric fences intefering. My only complaint is that Draco is in the wrong
part of the sky! But a few extra seconds to download email is sure not as
bad as going to a conference and
having to sit through boring (and often irrelevant) presentations or
discussions.

I'd go along with Mike - if someone wants to post a new chart like this,
then great. Saves me having to chase up Rod all the time for copies of
whatever he's using.

Regards,
Stan
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Simonsen <mikesimonsen@mindspring.com>
To: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; p.warhurst
<p.warhurst@auckland.ac.nz>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 2:37 AM
Subject: [vsnet-chat 3688] Re: attachments


> I guess I just don't understand the paranoia and griping about
attachments.
> What is it that sets people off about this? Is it fear of viruses or
> download time or what?
>
> Having a chart for a CV that is currently in outburst magically show up in
> my mailbox is like finding a present under the tree on Christmas morning.
I
> tried to piece one together last night and gave up because I couldn't come
> up with an acceptable sequence. Here we have an expert putting together
> sequences from the best photometry going, drawing up charts and sending
them
> to us for free and instead of thanking him the first response is negative.
>
> If you don't trust attachments delete the message before you open it or
run
> it through your virus checker. How much effort is that? As for sending it
to
> *another* vsnet list, it was sent to vsnet-sequence. Unfortunately, many
of
> the observers who actually make observations of these stars have
> unsubscribed to everything but obs, chat, outburst and alert out of
> frustration with the heavy traffic the other lists created. So now chat,
> alert or outburst is the only way to reach them.
>
> I'm not sure there is a way to make everyone happy, but for God's sake
let's
> not make another vsnet-whatever list!
>
> M. Simonsen
>
>

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