Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: Did I miss something? Message-ID: <3016@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 12:48:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3016 Posted: Thu Aug 9 12:48:54 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Aug-84 00:55:25 EDT References: <452@ames.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 15 The Stardate articles are scripts for the National Public Radio show Stardate. They originate at the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas. The motivation for the postings is simply that many people find them interesting. The postings of Stardate to net.astro were announced in net.news.group, to no objections and some favorable comment. The only gripe was from somebody in Europe who objected to posting it to a *new* newsgroup (net.astro.stardate) because he was of the opinion that that would increase the amount of stuff that had to be shipped to Europe. The idea of posting the Stardate articles was also mentioned several times in net.astro itself some months back, also to no objections. -- John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq