[vsnet-alert 4811] (fwd) Re: Unnecessary postings

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:19:43 +0200 (SAST)
From: Sonja Vrielmann <sonja@pinguin.ast.uct.ac.za>
To: Patrick Schmeer <p.schmeer@mx.uni-saarland.de>
cc: vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp, Patrick Schmeer <extpasc@rz.uni-sb.de>

Dear Patrick, dear Observers,

there are some people who do not follow all observations but only the
alerts, because they are mainly interested in outbursts. Then I find it ok
to post all sorts of outbursts in the vsnet-alerts, even not so rare ones.
Anyway, where does one draw the line? But I agree that there are sometimes
unnecessary postings in the alerts. Follow-up observations or fadings
after an outburst are certainly not alert worthy.

It was a good idea to split the vsnet messages to reduce the mail load if
one wishes to, but I guess, except for maybe the alerts there is no common
mailing list and therefore difficult to reach everybody otherwise. Like
this message rather belongs to vsnet-chat, but is aimed at the whole vsnet
community.

Best regards and apologies for posting this to vsnet-alerts,
Sonja.


On Wed, 10 May 2000, Patrick Schmeer wrote:

> Dear observers,
>  
> please stop posting to vsnet-alert observations of DN outbursts that are
> neither rare nor bright. Outbursts of FO Aql and normal outbursts of
> YZ Cnc really do not belong to vsnet-alert - especially when they were
> already announced on vsnet-obs. 
>  
> Regards,
> Patrick
> 

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