Josh R. Williams writes : >Sorry to bring my home page back onto this list but I figured I would try >to do the list a favor by trying to reduce list traffic, the excess >traffic I am talking about is the "I saw this" traffic. Instead of >sending sightings to the seesat-l list send them to me instead. The >sightings will be published on my page and the person with the most >sightings at the end of the month will win a prize. To get the rules and >regs. surf to my page (address in the sig). Hmmm, exchanging information about observations (i.e. 'I saw this') was one of the main reasons Walter Nissen and I started SeeSat-L in the first place in December 1994. I don't think the list traffic has become that cumbersome, has it ? At least the number of subscribers is still growing (210 now), so I imagine most people are not too bothered with volume (yet?). Of course, I have nothing against Josh's proposal to send sightings to him so he can put them on the Web, but I would suggest to also keep sending sightings to SeeSat-L, since that is exactly what we meant SeeSat-L for (I'm sure Walter will correct me if he disagrees). SeeSat-L would loose a lot of its value to me if sightings were banned from it. Concluding, I feel we don't see enough sightings on SeeSat-L. I have no idea about what most people on the list are observing. Anyone agree/disagree ? Cheers, Bart De Pontieu (bdp@mpe.mpe-garching.mpg.de)