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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: LATE POSTINGS!
Message-ID: <316@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 12:05:04 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  7 12:05:04 1985
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> 
>          I always enjoy reading the postings on net.astro and 
>          net.astro.expert, but why are all the articles about
>          stardates that are usually ten days old.  I read the 
>          net everyday, and there are postings for dates three
>          or four days old. Why not come up to date people????

The Stardate postings are posted on the same day that they are
broadcast on the radio.  They are posted to USENET as a service
to its readers.  It would be unfair to the broadcasters
(who pay for Stardate) if it were to be posted earlier.
Unfortunately, there is an unavoidable propagation delay in the
net, and the farther you are from utastro, the later you will
read Stardate.

Stardate is carried by hundreds of radio stations across the
United States.  Check your local station for availability, or
write
	Stardate
	% McDonald Observatory
	The University of Texas at Austin
	Austin, TX 78712

for information.  If no local station carries it, and you would
like them to, lobby the station manager!

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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