Afternoon all I fully support Brian's comment in his message of Aug 12 at 18:59:09UT. I have always regarded Seesat ( and Hearsat) as forums where one can learn how to do different aspects of the hobbies we share. Those that have the knowledge should do what they can to assist those who wish to achieve similar results. I do not believe these newsgroups are intended to be places to show just how good one is at a particular task without being prepared to detail how such a result was obtained so that anyone sufficiently interested can do the same OR BETTER. In the professional community where ones advance in ones career is based on "publish or perish" one has to safeguard ones particular skills to ensure that the individual is not "piped" by someone else . In the amateur context I believe the situation is the opposite - one should be prepared to publish full details as to how to do something etc , if not then dont post because the contribution then has relatively little value to the furtherance of our hobbies and is more suited for posting to the "Astronomical Picture of the Day" etc. We are amateurs, we do it for fun, and do not make money from our specific skills , so and our main purpose should be to ensure that others may do the same if they wish to. I have frequently gone to quite considerable lengths in private emails to assist people to achieve what I can do or have done and I sincerely hope that the receipients can provide me with "competition" and even exceed what I can do since then I could possibly learn more or improve the way I do things. The more people we have capable of producing useful results the more we can advance our hobby. We are all here to teach one another. Is not "imitation the sincerest form of flattery?" Thats my 1c's worth.... Cheers Greg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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