In a message dated 10/30/01 10:40:19 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rdcrisp@No-Spam writes:
> What's a newbie to do? Should I continue to post links as quite a number
> have
> asked me to do, or should I not?
You're taking this too personally, Mr. Crisp (I only write this cause there's
so many Richards on the list.) Someone posted that the list was quiet, I
posted that it was good because people didn't have anything to say at the
time and why fill the list with junk. You replied since you didn't post any
image links that there wasn't anything to talk about. That begat this long
thread about what is reasonable to post to the list. It has really nothing
to do with your posting image links.
As has been stated before, most anything astro related is acceptable to post,
this list has long lost it's roots as an observers only list. What was also
decided was that we would keep replies to off-topic posts to a minimum. It's
not a problem for me or you to post an image link, it's the mound of f
ollow-up public replies like "Nice shot!" from 10 people, and then 10 more
replies from the imager saying "Thanks!" It's not a problem to say "I'm
selling an eyepiece and want to offer it to a TACo first", it's 6 people
posting on-list that they want to buy it. Those types of public posts that
should be private are what mess up the list and cause us to lose subscribers.
Bruce Jenson writes about "value-added" posts, and that's all us old foogies
are looking for. The occassional jokes or poking fun at each other can keep
the list interesting, but TAC's purpose is not to be a general chat list.
That's what some of us are trying to get across. What I'm hoping though is
that we ALL do our best to keep the list alive as an amateur astronomy list
and help each other out whether it's about eyepieces, observing sites, star
atlas's, laser pointers, sharing our photos, or observing particular objects.
As Paul L. wrote, we're amateur astronomers, and that can take many forms.
You've come in as a new comer to the list and say, "times change, new people
come in, things evolve, move over, who cares how you used to do things." I
say "welcome to the group, this is how we do things here, can we help you,
want to look through my scope, what can I learn from you." You want to move
furniture, I want to sit you in the old comfy chair.
Richard Navarrete
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