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From: GMS@psuvm.BITNET
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Astronomical software
Message-ID: <1955GMS@psuvm>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 21:29:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 21:29:17 1985
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I heartily endorse the idea of sharing astronomical software, and also the
idea of a net.astro.software.  Even if there is no interest in a newsgroup
let us still form an informal net of people with the intent of sharing
this stuff.
     
I would be willing to help the process by gathering (1) a mailing list (email
on uucp, arpa, csnet, berkleynet or bitnet hopefully) of people with a
possible interest in the software, and (2) an initial list of the available
software.
     
What are the thoughts of the people on the net?  Reply either to the net or
to me personally.
     
Another thought - how about a "net.astro.observer" to be used to correlate
observations of certain phenomona among amateur astronomers (such as the
upcoming Comet Halley).
     
     
Gerry Santoro  --  Penn State University
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