Chris Novy - WA9V <AXVSCCN@UICVMC.bitnet> (02/22/90)
Hi everyone:
I wanted to send out an explanation about some of the postings you have
been receiving on STORM-L and STORM-W lately. Charley Kline has come up
with a way for certain products to be automatically queued for distribution
thus cutting out the middle-man (me !). STORM-L was designed as a forum
for discussing weather-related topics. It also allowed the distribution
of NWS products. I've tried to balance what is sent over STORM-L to be
of interest to everyone in the U.S. and tried to keep updates and local
weather products to a minimum since I understand that not everyone has
the same interest in weather (both scientifically and geographically).
I'd like to solicit some comments about the autofeeding of weather.
For seed, I'd suggest coded products (abbreviated) should be kept off
STORM-L. Non-time-specific products like the National Weather Summary
should continue, however, mixed case conversion may not be possible --
or may not be 100% accurate (if automatically converted). For STORM-W,
I wouldn't mind seeing all the tornado and severe thunderstorm watches
(averages about 500 - 700 products per year), and all tornado warnings.
I'd say add the severe thunderstorm warnings but these are issued so
often that I know people would eventually get tired of them. People
on Internet will get these products fairly quickly but BITNET'ers
and people on other nets may see quite a delay so I'd hate to flood
STORM-W with too many time-specific products. We could send out the
AC (severe weather outlook) on STORM-W in it's raw form and I could
still send out a decoded version on STORM-L.
One final idea, I haven't researched it though, would be setting up some
semi-regional lists (like STORM-E, STORM-W, STORM-N, STORM-S) and limit
products by region. That way people could subscribe to the weather
region of their choice (more or less). If such a list service were started
I'd probably have the logging eliminated or reduced so that the LISTSERV
disk wouldn't fill up.
Well there's food for thought. If you have any comments please send them
to me or to STORM-L (whichever is more appropriate). Thanks. ...Chris...
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------Ship and travel by trolley <BILL@NORTHEASTERN.EDU> (02/22/90)
Chris -
I'd like to see regional stuff available, although I enjoy seeing
the new highs and lows all around the country. For time reasons, my
desire to read about tornado warnings in south Texas is pretty small.
But having northeast/mid-Atlantic stuff available would be great.
Bill Young
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