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From: kjohn@CTIX.uucp (John K. Counsulatant)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v16i090:  Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory, Part01/49
Message-ID: <130@richsun.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 01:09:31 GMT
References: <1249@fig.bbn.com> <1280@vsi1.UUCP> <2818@kitty.UUCP>
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Reply-To: kjohn@richp1.UUCP (John K. Counsultant)
Organization: RICH Inc. , Franklin Park,IL
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In article <2818@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>In article <1280@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
>> =The following describes SAO (Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory) dataset,
>> =reduced to RA/DECL/MAG records and posted in ASCII format in 48 parts.
>> 
>> HEY! 3MB of posting for extremely limited interest?  I strongly urge you,
>> Rich, to not send the rest of this out in this manner.  I'm sure there must
>> be a much better channel for distribution.
>
>	I strongly agree with Larry Blair.  My site (and no doubt others),

	NO NO a 1000 times NO !!!! :-)

	I disagree, Rich, PLEASE POST THE REST OF THE SAO DATASET.  It
*does* have uses for more people than you would think.  I personally :-),
have two uses: 1) I am planning a grand version of a StarTrek/SpaceWar type
game and would like to use the dataset to add some realism to it.  2) I
also would like to create an animation on my system showing interselllar
travel.  An animation like this could be a great learning tool if it used
this dataset for it's display of stars.

	All I can say is USENET is a truely valuable resource to the Unix
community, it would be ashame to limit this resourse just because a couple
whiners can't hit the K key, or do have the space/time to archive something
that *in their opinions* is useless......

	Nuf said :-).

						KJohn


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