RE: S3D & T3D

[P3D john bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who acted in my stead as moderators.  I have trouble 
keeping up with the posts.  (It's this darned job; it interferes 
with my leisure time.)
 
When you make a change like this, some people will like it, some 
will be neutral, and the occasional bloke will spit his dummy.  
My sincere apologies to those who were upset.  The major problem 
we're addressing is the earlier limitation on commercial or 
commercial-like postings.  I think many people would like to be 
more informed as to what's available, and rightly so.  P3D is 
getting overloaded and would become even more overloaded if we 
allowed commercial posts on it. 
 
> That said, I think everyone on Photo-3d should be automatically 
> subscribed to Sell-3d, with the option unsubscribe.
 
We considered that but figured more would be offended by being 
added than would be offended by not being added.  (This best 
guess comes from years of experience listening to indignant 
subscribers.)  About 10% of the list have opted to join, up to 
this point, and the number of sub requests has now died down to 
about the level of sub requests for the P3D list.  So I think it's 
approaching its asymptote.
 
> Proud member of: photo-3d, tech-3d, sell-3d and DrT-3d!!!
 
Sounds like it is about time to announce that there is another 
list for strictly technical posts.  We were keeping it a little 
quiet while it was getting on its feet.  T3D averages maybe one 
post a day.  Definitely not recommended for those who are not 
mathematically inclined.  To join, send mail to your friendly list 
server with the following statement in the body of the message:
subscribe tech3d <your name>
where <your name> really is your name and not your address.  
(We're still getting e-mail addresses in that field and that 
requires further communication with the sender, in some cases, 
to determine his name.)
 
> Don't forget that here is photo-3d.  I think that John B. said
> that accurate statements or facts belong to sell-3d.  Myths,
> opinions and fantasies belong to photo-3d! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
 
Now don't misquote me!  Fantasy _is_ allowed on sell-3d or else 
most folks wouldn't be able to mention their asking prices.
 
John B
 


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