Re: Tass site codes/Progres report.

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

Chris,

I think you did right.  Just send a revision to Michael.  The technical
notes were intended as the place where standards, and anything else with
any permanency was to be stored.  It is hoped that while anything else
might fade away, that the TNs will be preserved.  When my old group at
Fermilab was disolved, I called the Fermilab library and they gladly took
charge of 300 or so TNs.  Fermilab is not the place, but some other library
will take over in the future if we last long enough.  

This is a reminder to everyone.  If you want to see something preserved so
you can find it again in the future, make it a TN.  There is no review, no
one will hold you to any standard, and there are no page charges.  What
more could you ask?
Lots of stuff representing many hours of work has shown up in the day to
day correspondence.  It is mostly now lost.  But if you make it a TN you
will be able to find it again, and refer to it to save you writing it all
out again.  I, at least, promise not to hold against anyone half baked
logic or errors that might be made.  The TNs are not guaranteed to be
right, or to be as substantial as scientific papers.  They are just a place
to keep stuff.  

Tom Droege


At 02:49 PM 5/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>One question?  Who is the keeper of the TASS site letter codes?
>TN30 lists them ending at "H" for Tom.  I'll grab "I" as the next
>available letter if no one objects.  (Some people don't like 
>using "I", "L" "O" or "X" letter codes.)