If the discussion was limited to climate science many agreed it was an astronomy topic. However, it always quickly degraded away from science. enough said. It seems the expressed consensus is that we will no longer bring up climate science. Once, the subject comes up it is hard to stop it without possible censorship. The delete option is an individuals best option. On the subject of photography, I guess the proof is in the pudding. I must admit though some of the image processing programs seem to have a data base of astronomical images that it uses to produce the images it "processes". IE "Photography Gate" Erik On 09 Dec 2009, at 16:24, David Rankin wrote:
Chuck,
This discussion had nothing to do with what you perceive as "fact".
Actually Chuck has left the list (another victim of our recent climate change flame war).
He certainly was not the first which has me wondering about ways to keep such things from happening in future.
One option would be to have the system set that if a certain numbers of folks post, either to the list or to the administrators, that a discussion has gone on too long the administrators would cut off the discussion.
The liberal side of me sees that as a form of censorship. During the recent war I found myself using the "delete" key very liberally.
But, then again, if a discussion becomes so heated and drawn out that it drives folks away, maybe such an option should be pursued.
You opinions (on this and other way of handling wars) would be much appreciated.
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