Re: Public Attack on TASS

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:41:14 -0500
From: Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Public Attack on TASS

Although I have had and will have many problems with Mr. Greaves, I
don't see anything I would call an attack here. John has been pretty
consistent with his low opinion of TASS. I think that comes with the
territory in this business.

M.


On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:27 AM, Tass Mailing List wrote:

>
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:27:14 +0100 (BST)
> From: Martin Nicholson <martin_piers_nicholson@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: Public Attack on TASS
>
> John Greaves has published another attack on TASS - part of a
> broader attack on a range of people and organisations.
>
>   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/405
>
>
>
>   "I am long known for being somewhat critical of data from TASS.
>
> That criticism was irrelevant. It didn't matter, as next to no one
> bothered with it, and it lived in an obscure niche of which's
> existance few knew.
>
> Now it's in VizieR. It spits out on any spatially relevant general
> VizieR search. Now folk will use it, never having read the
> accompanying paper, which is one long apology and comments more than
> once that the survey should've been done differently in many
> fundamental aspects, and that the site is not photometrically suited,
> and that despite the goodly errors quoted in the patch catalogue, the
> figures show somewhat sizeable offsets as shown in the figures, and
> such, and such.
>
> Yet now it's in VizieR, with widely available V and Ic values written
> all over it.
>
> It'll be used, no matter what I think or say."
>
>
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