[vsnet-chat 3698] Re: attachments

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

Greetings,

I have to go along with Mike also on the question of lists. I'm one of the
people who used to get 200 messages a day listing all types of information -
a
lot of it confusing at that. So I get only a few lists today. I suspect that
the reason more people don't abandon VSCharts or whatever is that it's not
an active area and doesn't jam up the system like some areas do.

I earlier made the comment that VSNet should publish at intervals a list of
what
services it provides and information about how to get on and off these.

Incidentally, I've tried downloading charts from the website and this is
difficult.
Maybe I did something wrong but white stars on a black
background are not much use and the charts I did get didn't resemble the
field all that well. Many of us use email - I have for a long time - but not
the internet. So the website may be too complicated.

Similarly the lists of stars offer a lot but in reality this isn't the case.
I looked up a couple of CVs and got a light curve but couldn't find the raw
observations.

Maybe it's time to find out what the subscriber wants and provide this. It's
a
great service that is being provided but I suspect that 60% of it is,
perhaps, being wasted?

Regards,
Stan

----- Original Message -----
From: Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:23 AM
Subject: [vsnet-chat 3693] Re: attachments


> 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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