[vsnet-chat 3693] Re: attachments

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Re: [vsnet-chat 3688] attachments

> 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.

   Well, this is not apparently correct.  About 90% of vsnet-chat subscribers
are subscribed to vsnet-sequence.  There are also a few "vsnet-sequence only"
subscribers.  Posting to vsnet-sequence, and a few lines of comments other
necessary lists, is the most functioning way to distribute charts and
sequence to the different degree of necessity by observers, chart makers,
etc.  The vsnet-chat subscribers are not always observers.  They can be
theorists who want to discuss on variable star phenomena; for non-observers
(or non-optical observers) random collection of numbers like charts,
sequence and identification lists are almost useless.  This is one of the
main reasons of list splits resulting in vsnet-chart, vsnet-id and
vsnet-sequence.

Regards
Taichi Kato

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