T3D Re Wearing my moderator hat.....

[john bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> But that was just a joke, understandable for people who have read
> the amusing discussing on P3D about filtering. 

Sorry I missed the joke.  I just perceived it as several people (not 
just you) importing a beef from another list to the list I am responsible 
for.  If _everyone_ finds it humorous, then I have no problem with it.  
As we all know, beefs require enormous amounts of wasted energy.  So who 
needs that?  8-)

> Now that I have learned that John Bercovitz is the (or one of the?)
> moderator(s) of this list and that he does not belong to the other
> list I have some questions:
> Would be possible to tell new subscribers who is or who are the
> moderator(s), and tell all subscibers when there is a change?

I think we do the latter but you would have to go far back in the 
archives to discover the current state.  Last I recall, Bob Wier is 
in charge of all things technical (computer stuff), Dr. T is in charge 
of subscriptions, and Joel Alpers is in charge of keeping the P3D & S3D
lists on an even keel.  I do "Joel's job" on this list.  All of us can
do all of the other's jobs.  So if one of us is out of town, the 
others can cover.  If you have a problem, you can write to me as well 
as one of the others but the best thing to do is to send your problem to 
3d-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
where the correct moderator for that job will pick it up and deal with it.

> Is it possible to give some figures periodically on the numbers
> of subscribers?

I used to do that but it has been a very long time.  Let me see if
I still remember how to do it.  (My little bit of Unix is getting rusty.)
OK, it was far easier than I thought.  These figures will include multiple
entries, postpones, and so on so they are higher than the effective figures.

P3D 1007 entries
S3D  491 entries
T3D  218 entries

We used to have a moderator who wrote a program to give us a count 
by country.  That was fun.

> I find it rather amazing that John Bercovitz is moderator of this
> list but doesn't read the other one, which often is on (semi) technical
> subjects. This is not meant as criticism, I don't think he should explain
> why, I'm just amazed.

Oh, it's easy to explain and I don't mind.  My interests have narrowed
to the technical aspects of 3D while P3D has broadened to the point
where it is not particularly focussed on my areas of interest.  So it
was no longer a good fit for me.  Frankly I am much more interested in
your sort of post than a post on whether a realist is better than a kodak.
Others are just the opposite.  

BTW, I saw the treatise you posted.  It looks fascinating.  Now there's 
something for me to work my way through.  Thanks much.

John B


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