Re: date error, alleged

[Sebastian Otero <varsao@fullzero.com.ar>]

> Doug Welch has a good suggestion in a weather check.  He is also right
> about the reputation of the data.  I am only slightly paranoid, but it
> seems to me that there are those out there with deliberate intent to
attack
> the credibility of the tass data.

Yes, please check if the Sun is up there at midnight...
Yes, there are people attacking TASS data's credibility: you.


> This is one problem with running an
> operation out in the open as tass does.  Usually, these things take place
> in the dark recesses of an experimental collaboration.  One only sees a
> final presentation.  As the Kaiser said, it is not so good to let the
> general public know what goes on in deliberations of the privy council, or
> what actually goes into their sausages.  Not quite the correct quotation,
> but you get it.  It is not so good for the general public to see what goes
> on in data reduction.  Sigh!  But we are doing it in public, and we shall
> have to live with the consequences.  I would not have it any other way.
In
> the end, the tass data will live or die by it's utility.  I can only do
the
> best I can.

What a way of justifying all these mistakes. In the world I know (open or
close) there is a quality control before making something available to the
general use of the public. Maybe it's time for a change because you are
saying it yourself: the TASS data will live or die by its utility.. OK. I
think you are killing it.....