Do I know you from somewhere? Are y ou an online single? steve.nielsen@comcast.net wrote: Chuck, I spend 99.9% of my time reading e-mails and lurking in the shadows. I rarely take the time to respond to e-mails or contribute to the thread. But I feel I need to on this one. Someone must have responded privately to one of your e-mails that I didn't see. I've read and followed this group for several years. I have always enjoyed your sense of humor, sometimes you make me laugh out loud. I'm usually surrounded by kids when I'm on the computer and when people on the list are joking back and forth, I'll often read it to my kids. It's good stuff. Your years of experience and wealth of knowledge is of tremendous value. You are one of the key components of this group. I totally understand and respect your time restraints with school and if that is why you are going to contribute less, more power to you. But please don't let one or two vocal people ruin it for the rest of us. You're a stud and I love reading postings from you and Siegfried, Brent, Kim, Patrick, Joe etc. Keep it coming when you can. -------------- Original message --------------

I've decided that I'll no longer comment on motivations, reasons, or the zen of astronomy (or any subject for that matter) on the list, and will stick to the occasional fact only. It's obvious that I am out-of-touch with the "amateur astronomer" of today. I also lack the communcative skills to truly get my ideas across and am not doing the concepts any good for that reason.

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