Hi All,
Below you find a reminder of the posting guidelines of SeeSat-L.
I think we've all seen satellite imagery of the tragic events last week
by now, since they are all over the Web (any news-site will have them).
Moreover these messages are not related to visual satellite observing.
Please help keeping the list as focused as it has always been by not
sending off-topic messages.
Cheers,
Bart
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SeeSat-L is a busy list with over 600 subscribers. The list-owners
want the list to remain focused on VISUAL satellite observing.
SeeSat-L is intended to be a low-to-moderate volume list with high
information content about visual satellite observations. A lot of
information on visual satellite observing is already available on
the Internet. A good starting point is
http://www.satellite.eu.org/
All previous messages to SeeSat-L have been archived on
the WWW (www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/).
If you decide to post a message to the list, please make sure
you follow these guidelines:
a. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you send binary/encoded messages
to SeeSat-L. We want only plain text (ASCII) messages on SeeSat-L.
I.e. no images, no html-documents, and so on.
Be careful when you 'attach' files to your message. These
attachments can be encoded ! Also, many mail-programs
automatically encode your messages into html. Those messages are
not welcome on SeeSat-L as they are not readable by many
subscribers.
b. Messages to SeeSat-L need to have an Obligatory Visual
observing Satellites Content. If you are posting a message to
SeeSat-L which does not have an OVSC, you're making a mistake!
Do not send messages with "Off-topic" or "OT" in the Subject!
c. Discussions about any aspect of visual (!) satellite observing
are welcome of course. This means that messages about RADIO
observations are OFF-TOPIC. On-topic are messages
describing such things as orbital elements, visual observations,
methods for observing/calculating, prediction software, news about
satellites (if it is tied into VISUAL observing), and so on.
d. Please AVOID:
- reporting too many 'I saw this satellite' messages without any
'added value' to it. Yes, Iridiums do flare up, and yes MIR
*is* bright. But that's no longer news. Exceptional MIR and
Iridium observations are welcome though. What is added value?
(Flash) Timings, positions of satellites in the night-sky, seeing
satellites under difficult/exceptional circumstances (e.g. first
sightings, in the vicinity of other satellites), and so on.
- replying to long messages with wise-cracks or one-liners such
as 'I agree', 'You are wrong', and so on. Remember this list is
read by over 600 people!
- quoting excessively. All readers are subscribed to the list
and you can expect them to have read the message you're replying
to. Please just quote those parts that are relevant to your
response.
- sig-lines longer than 4 lines.
- commercial advertisements.
- using the old, outdated domains in the e-mail addresses of the
list(s) such as blackadder.lmsal.com,
cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de even if messages seem to originate
there.
e. Suggestions:
- If you have just subscribed to SeeSat-L for the first time,
we appreciate it if you send a short introduction about yourself
and your interest in satellite observing to the EXPLOSIVE address
(SeeSat-L@lists.satellite.eu.org).
- please always include your geographical coordinates (latitude,
longitude) and the exact time of observing (+ timezone) if
you report observations of unknown satellites.
- when in doubt, please ask the administrator (see below) whether
messages are on-topic or not.
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