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[fitsbits] New owner/moderator for
Dear friends of FITS,
I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. I still have a small office space at NRAO, and I still have my account, but I am definitely in the process of reducing my professional activity level, slowly but steadily. I have operated the mailing list (exploder) for the past 17 years. The time has come for me to begin transferring that responsibility to someone else. I have asked Bill Pence to join me as co-owner/co-moderator of fitsbits, and he has accepted. The suffix line on traffic and on the web pages associated with fitsbits now reads 'fitsbits list run by William.D.Pence at nasa.gov, dwells at nrao.edu'. I am grateful to Bill for his willingness to take on this duty. Regards, Don Wells PS: The Mailman software which operates fitsbits was upgraded on Sunday 10-19 (8 days ago). The new version 2.1.5 has new features to assist with management of mailing lists. I am especially pleased by a new button which enables bulk deletion of spam traffic held for moderation. However, the moderation policies associated with exploder--newsgroup gateways were changed in an unfortunate way which allowed several pieces of spam traffic to 'leak' from sci.astro.fits to fitsbits unmoderated. The first such traffic was titled '[fitsbits] RTGUI now has Scripting for Telescope Automation, & Double Star catalogs' and dated 'Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:54:05 GMT' (one week ago). The goal of my test messages on Friday 10-24 was to develop a new combination of configuration settings which would return fitsbits to the mode of operation which it had with the previous version of Mailman. Please report any problems with fitsbits to Bill and/or me. -- Donald C. Wells Scientist (retired) http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~dwells Charlottesville, Virginia USA +1-434-962-3363 |
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On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 10:56, Don Wells wrote:
Dear friends of FITS, I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. I am sure that I speak for everyone in my appreciation for all that Don has done for FITS over the years. Enjoy your retirement! -- Stephen Walton Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge |
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Stephen Walton wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 10:56, Don Wells wrote: Dear friends of FITS, I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. I am sure that I speak for everyone in my appreciation for all that Don has done for FITS over the years. I'll second that! Enjoy the retirement, but we do hope to see you around here and there. - peter |
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Don,
Let me add my own words of appreciation, gratitude, and, yes, congratulations. Your contributions, the nudging and poking, much of it invisible to most of us, have made a world of difference to the FITS world. Thank you and enjoy your well-deserved retirement! - Arnold Don Wells wrote: Dear friends of FITS, I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. I still have a small office space at NRAO, and I still have my account, but I am definitely in the process of reducing my professional activity level, slowly but steadily. ... -- Donald C. Wells Scientist (retired) http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~dwells Charlottesville, Virginia USA +1-434-962-3363 _______________________________________________ fitsbits mailing list http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold H. Rots Chandra X-ray Science Center Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory tel: +1 617 496 7701 60 Garden Street, MS 67 fax: +1 617 495 7356 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Ditto from here. I'm one of the silent followers of fitsbits,
who knows how much you have contributed. Mike Davis now at: Allen Telescope Array Hat Creek Observatory Arnold Rots wrote: Don, Let me add my own words of appreciation, gratitude, and, yes, congratulations. Your contributions, the nudging and poking, much of it invisible to most of us, have made a world of difference to the FITS world. Thank you and enjoy your well-deserved retirement! - Arnold Don Wells wrote: Dear friends of FITS, I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. I still have a small office space at NRAO, and I still have my account, but I am definitely in the process of reducing my professional activity level, slowly but steadily. ... -- Donald C. Wells Scientist (retired) http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~dwells Charlottesville, Virginia USA +1-434-962-3363 ______________________________________________ _ fitsbits mailing list http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold H. Rots Chandra X-ray Science Center Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory tel: +1 617 496 7701 60 Garden Street, MS 67 fax: +1 617 495 7356 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ fitsbits mailing list http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits |
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On Monday 27 September 2004 19:56, Don Wells wrote:
I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. Don, Thank you for all you have done for FITS over the years. I have always enjoyed working with you and hope we still can look forward to your advice in many years to come. Astronomy have surely benefitted much by your foresight in promoting a common data format. Thanks, Preben |
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On Mon 2004-09-27T13:56:34 -0400, Don Wells hath writ:
I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. Beyond the lauds there does remain one hoop through which Don Wells will have to jump with alacrity. With me Don is co-author of the FITS MIME Internet-Draft which is now in a 4-week period of evaluation by the Internet Engineering Steering Group. For full details, see http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/fits/mime/ There has been no reason so far to believe that the document will not be approved and handed to the RFC-Editor to become an RFC. The evaluation period will expire during ADASS. Some time after that the RFC Editor will place the document into "Final Review", also known as AUTH48. Both Don and I will have 48 hours to respond to give approval to the final form. Fortunately, I have Don's cell phone number 8-) -- Steve Allen UCO/Lick Observatory Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Voice: +1 831 459 3046 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla PGP: 1024/E46978C5 F6 78 D1 10 62 94 8F 2E 49 89 0E FE 26 B4 14 93 |
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