Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill 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 Article-I.D.: utastro.316 Posted: Sun Jul 7 12:05:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:45:12 EDT References: <975@hou2h.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 35 > > > 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) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)