Re: [APML] APML Voting Site

[Robert Sherwood <photorob00@yahoo.com>]

I only joined this list recently after being on several other lists for 
about a year.  Those other lists all had a mix of film and digital.  When 
someone mentioned that this was the premier list on film astrophotography, 
I couldn't join fast enough.  Allowing other media will only make this list 
like the others, and therefore much less useful to people looking for film 
information.

As for the "low number of posts,"  I have no idea what you're talking 
about.  I've only rarely seen any days with single digit post numbers.  So 
there aren't hundreds of posts a day - so what?  That means that each post 
is more likely to get read.

It will be easy to tell when APML has outlived it's usefulness - that will 
be when the number of posts is zero.  And at that point, it will not matter 
since the (former) members will have moved on and will not care 
anymore.  As long as there is one person still posting, the list has value.

At 06:14 PM 2/4/05, you wrote:
>Because I would like to see the APML continue as THE resource on
>astroimaging (film, CCD, DSLR, digicam etc etc) not only film.  It is my
>opinion that it will not continue very far into the future considering the
>trend of film manufacturers, digital pricing and the newbies entering the
>hobby who are buying digicams, webcam, DSLR's and sometimes even CCD's.
>
>I feel if digital media is allowed, it can only make the list a richer
>place.  And just because digital is officially allowed on the list doesn't
>mean that all of the postings will be that...........
>
>Chris

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