Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!nasamail.nasa.gov!tpfabian From: tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov (THEODORE FABIAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: RE: Re: the deafening silence Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 89 06:06:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 68 Regarding the following message.... ------------------------------------------------- In the past few weeks I have noticed a marked discrepancy between the amount of questions asked on this newsgroup and the amount of answers received. I have recently posted an article to which I have gotten no response. This leads me to ask "Is this newsgroup alive?" "Does APOLLO listen?" "Does APOLLO care?" I can see that there may be some questions which have no real answers. But fully half of the queries posted here are met with the kind of silence that makes one think that one's post did not get through to everybody. Certainly if none of us users know the answer, someone from APOLLO (and some of these people have posted in the past) would be in a position to provide needed answers. Or at least a "Well, hey, got your message and we're working on it/looking at it/thinking about it/etc." But, alas, maybe I have too much faith in the good side of human nature. For certainly no one has to respond to anything. Maybe I expect too much. -Dave Hayes dave%jplopto@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov ------------------------------------------------- I think you've hit on a good point... Apollo is not listening.. it seems with the buyout by HP of Apollo, things have changed drastically... I was at the ADUS Conference in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, and sadly, I think that the outcomes of the conference pretty much sealed the fate of ADUS.. it seems that the HP group, whose name escapes me at this time, want to swallow ADUS up.. Also, the wish list from last years ADUS Conference got only a meager set of cursory answers at this past conference... one only needs to imagine what this years wish list will yield in the way of answers next year.. if ADUS is around next year... btw... I'm interested in hearing about your thoughts on ADUS.. are you a member?? what did you think of the recent conference?? do you think the group will survive?? etc. etc. etc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Thanks, * * * * Ted Fabian * * * * NASA Lewis Research Center * * Cleveland, Ohio * * * * phone: 216-433-6307 * * FTS: 297-6307 * * * * email: tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov * * tfabian@earth.lerc.nasa.gov * * tfabian@csd.lerc.nasa.gov * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -