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<DIV>See below...</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 10/11/2011 9:03:35 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
dmonteit@comcast.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>1) How
important are the online logs to capturing geyser
information?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>One needs to carefully ponder this. Clearly, we'd like to have every
eruption of every geyser logged someplace. Obviously, that's impossible.
However, within the limits of how many people are making observations at a
given time, seasonal openings-closings, day-night, and etc., it would be nice to
have what geyser information is available in any form readily AND
conveniently available to all.</DIV>
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<DIV>That "conveniently" is, to me, a bug-a-boo. Jake mentions how smart phones
will be the next big thing in gazing and geyser reporting. Fine. If you have a
smart phone. I don't, and I am rather sure to not have one in the foreseeable
future. (I'm not about to pay yet another $250+/year for "data service" on top
of all the other charges I'm already paying. Just not worth it. So much for
that.</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><BR>2)
How do we minimize errors in that log?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>In essence, you can't. There have been faulty geyser reports a huge number
of times in the past. It happens every summer, with frequency. Usually, this is
somebody's simple and unintentional error, and usually they quickly get
corrected. But even those, if relayed to an online log and if not corrected,
then they will be out there as "fact," presumably "forever."</DIV>
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<DIV>And yes, there have been occasional liars. People who intentionally
produce/post completely false data/information. Such people exist. They will
exist in the future, too.</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><BR>3)
[[not asked by Dave, but...]] </FONT><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I know
the ultimate decisions affecting the online logs are up to Jake<BR>and Alan,
but I'm wondering what others think.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>What I wonder is... wouldn't one of these logs be sufficient, especially
since they appear to be readily sharing/exchanging data. Yes, I know they are
both personal projects and all that, but...</DIV>
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<DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>