On 5/20/2012 7:13 AM, Dave Nelson wrote:
> Hi Thomas
>
>      I have been known to go back through the archives on the rare 
> occassion
> Primarily I'm interested in the recordings by others of the large 
> events M7++ ones.
> there has been times when for what ever reason I didnt get a copy in 
> the email
> or a hard drive crash has caused a loss of historical data.
>
>  On that note I was very grateful for Larry's archive as earlier this 
> year I realised I
> had lost all the SDR files of my own events that I recorded between 
> 1996 and 2000
> in New Zealand prior to coming to Australia.
>
> In general tho, I would suspect that the archives are not looked at 
> too often
> by many people. Regardless of whether the archived data is used by 
> professionals
> or not, is still a great resource and should be continued.
>
> The only real comment I would make about whether to upload files or 
> not is that
> maybe people should screen their own files before uploading.  If you 
> cant pick out
> a reasonable P and S arrival, then in all honesty, its probably not 
> worth posting.
> Of all the files that come to my mailbox via the list server, many of 
> them are
> deleted because of a lack of distinguisable P and S arrivals. Really, its
> no good for anything other than wasting hard drive space.
> So think about Larry's server before you upload your next file, are 
> you uploading
> something worth keeping or is it just filling Larry's hard drives up 
> with garbage ;)
>
> There are many events I record but dont upload for that very reason :)
>
> OK I have had my soapbox muttering for the week  haha
>
> cheers
> Dave
>
>
>
>> OK Geoff ..... you have been around longer than I....that makes 
>> sense..certainly my equipment is amateur quality..... now, answer 
>> this question....why are we posting to PSN...does anyone care....are 
>> the people posting more like mechanics working on better cars(seismic 
>> detection units) ...do they really look at the posted data
>
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You brought up one aspect of posting that I hadn't thought about. I just 
lost a hard drive....happens about every year...I could download from 
Larry's website....and a clearly detectable P and S way makes sense.
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