I wish all those who have privately e-mailed me, agreeing with my
suggestion, would make their views known to the mailing list. It
reminds me of the situation with the local train service to my house. A
lot of people moan about the trains (it's a single track line, so a
small problem can cause havoc). I hear commuters chatting amongst
themselves about the issue. I sometimes ask them if they have ever put
their complaints in *writing*, rather than moan to fellow passengers or
people selling tickets on the train. About 3% admit to doing so, with
the other 97% saying 'no, I must admit I have not done that.' Sending
mail to me personally is about as effective.
I must admit I have come to the conclusion a parasitic-oscillations
mailing list would probably would not work. Those who go on and on about
parasitic oscillations are the people that don't agree with a split.
Hence such people are most unlikely to subscribe to such a list. Those
that do agree with a split would not subscribe to a
parasitic-oscaillations mailing list anyway. So it would be a list with
no subscribers I expect.
Dr. David Kirkby PhD,
Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Medical Physics,
University College London,
11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA.
Tel: 020 7679 6408 Fax: 020 7679 6269
Internal telephone: ext 46408
e-mail davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk
Web page: http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~davek
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