[vsnet-chat 4859] Re: re DO Dra outburst!

[Patrick Schmeer <extpasc@rz.uni-sb.de>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:47:44PM +0000, crawl@zoom.co.uk wrote:
> 
> Brian Skiff opined :-
> 
> >     So, in 150 years will anyone care who happened to observe first
> >a particular outburst in 2001?  I doubt it.  In fact, will this current
> >outburst receive any attention right now (photometry, spectroscopy)?
> >I'd bet not either.  You guys will be happier if you leave your egos behind.
> 
> Fair comment, but lest we forget, tis not _you_ guys, but one guy, and a
> bunch of other folk who are seriously racked off with a perennial problem,
> which ain't gone away through it being ignored.
 
If there were only one guy with a big ego this whole discussion would have never
started ;-)
 
> So, aye, trenchantly put, but broadly shot instead of surgically directed.
> 
> 
> Meanwhile, Patrick Schmeer commented :- 
> 
> >Well, I would have not mentioned it had there not been a worldwide discussion
> >almost every time I did not report an outburst detection within few minutes.
> >It will be difficult for you to prove that you really were the first one to
> >spot the DO Dra outburst this time ;-)
> 
> finishing with :-
> 
> >But it does not matter anyway ...
> 
> SO WHY THE FRIG MENTION IT IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN?!!!

Because the whole topic does not matter to me but apparently it does matter to 
some agitators.

> 
> 'Tis strange for summat that don't matter anyway to be responded to in
> terms couched with aggressive comments such as "it will be difficult for
> you to prove".

Anyone willing to explain to JG what a smiley is? ;-)

Btw, in the past I noticed aggresive comments solely coming from JG and MS.
 
> PS, anybody know whether YY Dra is in outburst or not?
 
Anybody know where YY Dra is? ;-)  
 
To summarize your contributions so far:
When I report any 'prediscovery observation' I get beaten.
When someone else reports a 'prediscovery observation' I get beaten, too.
The same applies when I make reasonable comments. :-)
 
Regards,
Patrick

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