[Geysers] Webcam Agonistes

[Steven Krause]

As a long time lurker on this list, I tend to agree with this.

And, quite honestly, I think it's a valuble contribution of the experts on
this list to help provide increased accuracy in identification of what is
seen on the web cam. That information is useful to a larger number of
people than are on this list, and using the list membership to help
identify that and put that information in many hands will increase
enjoyment in areas NOT on this list.

I really have no problems with the volume of traffic here, and I'm on very
slow dialup.

Steve Krause

>
> Hi all!
>
> I think for me the bottom line is, I'd rather see somone's photocapture
> from the webcam than not see it. I mean, I AM a geyser gazer , I would
> like to see them, and I don't remember signing  any agreement about being
> accurate for posterity, although I do shoot for that. As someone said,
> this is an informal forum,and people have disagreed over steam cloud ID's
> long before the webcam. The best policy would probably be to capture an
> image and ask the group what they think the steamcloud is, and not be too
> dogmatic about it. I also agree that the researchers of the future are not
> going to be that credulous as to take everything we blab about as
> absolutely accurate.
>
>  Granted, it will be a messy thing to work out what we're seeing from the
> webcam vantage point (most gazers don't do their Geyser Hill observations
> from the benches at Old Faithful) but I can't see the harm, or not to the
> extent that Lynn envisions anyway.
>
> That's my two cents, I have ice cream to get to...
>
>                                    Grover Schrayer