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			| Re: RSI ENVI listserv [message #37581] | Thu, 08 January 2004 18:38 |  
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					|  Mark Hadfield Messages: 783
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	| Jonathan Greenberg wrote: 
 >  Heh -- I made a usenet group WAY back in 1991 and it took me FOREVER to set
 >  it up -- do you still have to send some weirdly formatted email to the
 >  Usenet gods someplace to beg for a usenet group?  I'm sure there are easier
 >  ways to do it nowadays, but the listserv setup from my university took all
 >  of 20 seconds to create.
 
 Good point.
 
 >  There used to be (still is?) an RSI ENVI listserv, but I got messages
 >  bounced from it a couple of times recently, and haven't received any emails
 >  from it in forever.  On top of that, I don't think they archived the posts,
 >  so there was no way to go back and look stuff up (thank you google!)  They
 >  have an online forum that is pretty much impossible to find from their
 >  website, so no one uses it.  Ah well!
 
 Archiving of posts in a searchable form (via Google) is one of the big
 reasons for using Usenet.
 
 >  P.S. I sense some issues with ENVI posts here -- it IS an IDL add-on after
 >  all!
 
 I can't see any problem with posting ENVI-related stuff to
 comp.lang.idl-pvwave. As a user of IDL but not ENVI, the ENVI stuff is
 seldom of interest to me, but that's OK. If ENVI posts always have
 "ENVI" in the subject line (which they often do) then I can just ignore
 them.
 
 >  P.S.S. Whats up with comp.lang.idl --> is this not for IDL programming?
 
 Yes, where "IDL" means "Interface Definition Language", not "Interactive
 Data Language". Quite unrelated. Is there any reader of
 comp.lang.idl-pvwave who has ever used the former?
 
 >  What is "pvwave" anyway?
 
 PV-Wave from Visual Numerics--see www.vni.com. Used to be very similar
 to IDL, less so now.
 
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 Mark Hadfield            "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
 m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
 National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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			| Re: RSI ENVI listserv [message #37583 is a reply to message #37581] | Thu, 08 January 2004 17:10  |  
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					|  Jonathan Greenberg Messages: 91
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	| Heh -- I made a usenet group WAY back in 1991 and it took me FOREVER to set it up -- do you still have to send some weirdly formatted email to the
 Usenet gods someplace to beg for a usenet group?  I'm sure there are easier
 ways to do it nowadays, but the listserv setup from my university took all
 of 20 seconds to create.
 
 There used to be (still is?) an RSI ENVI listserv, but I got messages
 bounced from it a couple of times recently, and haven't received any emails
 from it in forever.  On top of that, I don't think they archived the posts,
 so there was no way to go back and look stuff up (thank you google!)  They
 have an online forum that is pretty much impossible to find from their
 website, so no one uses it.  Ah well!
 
 --j
 
 P.S. I sense some issues with ENVI posts here -- it IS an IDL add-on after
 all!
 
 P.S.S. Whats up with comp.lang.idl --> is this not for IDL programming?
 What is "pvwave" anyway?
 
 On 1/8/04 3:15 PM, in article MPG.1a67927dd6f39eee98979a@news.frii.com,
 "David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote:
 
 >  Mark Hadfield writes:
 >
 >>  Yeah, but you're not an ENVI user (are you?). That should reduce the
 >>  number of off-topic posts by 90%.
 >
 >  I guess I wasn't aware you had to be a user to make off-topic
 >  posts. Now that I think about it, maybe that explains a few
 >  things around here. :-)
 >
 >  Cheers,
 >
 >  David
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			| Re: RSI ENVI listserv [message #37585 is a reply to message #37583] | Thu, 08 January 2004 15:15  |  
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					|  David Fanning Messages: 11724
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	| Mark Hadfield writes: 
 >  Yeah, but you're not an ENVI user (are you?). That should reduce the
 >  number of off-topic posts by 90%.
 
 I guess I wasn't aware you had to be a user to make off-topic
 posts. Now that I think about it, maybe that explains a few
 things around here. :-)
 
 Cheers,
 
 David
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 David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
 Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
 Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
 Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
 Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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			| Re: RSI ENVI listserv [message #37586 is a reply to message #37585] | Thu, 08 January 2004 14:58  |  
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					|  Mark Hadfield Messages: 783
 Registered: May 1995
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	| David Fanning wrote: >  Mark Hadfield writes:
 >
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 >> Just curious (I'm not an ENVI user myself) but why not a Usenet newsgroup?
 >
 >
 >  Are you kidding!? They've seen what goes on here! :-)
 
 Yeah, but you're not an ENVI user (are you?). That should reduce the
 number of off-topic posts by 90%.
 
 --
 Mark Hadfield            "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
 m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
 National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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			| Re: RSI ENVI listserv [message #37588 is a reply to message #37586] | Thu, 08 January 2004 14:36  |  
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					|  David Fanning Messages: 11724
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	| Mark Hadfield writes: 
 >  Just curious (I'm not an ENVI user myself) but why not a Usenet newsgroup?
 
 Are you kidding!? They've seen what goes on here! :-)
 
 Cheers,
 
 David
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 David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
 Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
 Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
 Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
 Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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			| Re: RSI ENVI listserv [message #37589 is a reply to message #37588] | Thu, 08 January 2004 14:23  |  
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					|  Mark Hadfield Messages: 783
 Registered: May 1995
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	| Jonathan Greenberg wrote: 
 >  Please forward this to anyone who might be interested:
 >
 >  We have created a listserv to facilitate discussion about Research Systems
 >  Inc.'s ENVI remote sensing analysis package (http://www.rsinc.com).  All
 >  questions/comments/discussions about the theory and application of this
 >  software are welcome.
 
 Just curious (I'm not an ENVI user myself) but why not a Usenet newsgroup?
 
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 Mark Hadfield            "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
 m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
 National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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