[vsnet-chat 1659] (fwd) Re: Frequency of magnitude summaries

[Daisaku Nogami <nogami@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

 Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:08:03 -0600
 From: Bill Dillon <bdillon@houston.geoquest.slb.com>
 To: rjmodic@stratos.net
 Cc: vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
 Subject: [vsnet-chat 0] Re: Frequency of magnitude summaries

Bob, 

Have you considered subscribing to vsnet-digest?  You could boil
those messages down to one per day.  If you also subscribed to
vsnet-alert, you wouldn't miss anything that was time-critical.

Regards,

Bill Dillon (DIL)
AAVSO

> 
>      I find the magnitude summaries posted daily to 'vsnet-recent'
> to be very useful, but there frequency lately (sometimes 100+/day)
> has occasionally caused my mailbox to fill up (my provider limits
> the number of messages to 350) if I am unable to check my mail for
> as little as three days.  I'd like to suggest the following.  
> 
>      Magnitude summaries should be updated and posted daily only
> for variables that are currently showing rapid changes in brightness
> (ie., outbursting D.N.).  Those for other, less active variables 
> could be updated perhaps once a week.  
> 
>      What do other VSNETers think about this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob Modic (MRV)
> AAVSO
> 
>

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