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Re: (meteorobs) Is NAMN and the ALPO Meteor Section needed?

At 02:51 PM 6/27/99 EDT, George tried to throw gasoline on the fire, but it
fizzled:

>Good answer Kim.  But isn't Mark the visual coordinator for both AMS and 
>NAMN? Are you suggesting that Mark is dragging his feet as the AMS Visual 
>coordinator and not while representing NAMN? <...yada, yada, yada>

>kim>>Now that I have joined the IMO, I await to see if I get as much
> up-to-the-minute info, alerts, and bulletins as currently provided by
NAMN --
> free of charge.<<
>
>Now that you are a member of IMO, you will notice that the bimonthly
journals 
>you get will have the same long range information

And, Kim, now that you are a member of AMS as well, you'll see Bob
Lundsford's unique monthly tables published in Meteor Trails that
graphically depict the active periods of each shower, along with
information on moonlight, and other valuable info.  No one else is
producing a planning product like that.

>kim>>I have noticed also that Meteorobs comes under the auspices of NAMN
> -- does it not?  Please point me to a similar service offered by the AMS, 
>ALPO,
> or the IMO...<<

It does not.  Lew is very clear on the fact that meteorobs is his
independent creation, and not an organ of any organization.  Lew has a
position on the AMS staff, but he still is careful to keep meteorobs
separate.  Last spring, when he had to move meteorobs to another server,
the AMS was ready sponsor meteorobs on our domain, but Lew found a donor in
jovian.com to handle it.  There would be no point in AMS offering a
similar, compteting service, that would truly be redundant.  IMO has an
IMO-news list, but it's relatively inactive, I think due to the success of
meteorobs.  The upshot is that we are all in this together, and do our best
to complement each other's efforts, not obstruct or snipe.

>The reasoning at the time was to keep the then floundering AMS from taking 
>control and essentially putting the squeeze on the newly formed NAMN.

This is pretty funny.  George, you gotta make up your mind.  Depending on
how you feel, the AMS was either "inactive", "floundering", "a broken-down
car on the side of the road" or an evil empire capable of taking over NAMN.
 I don't think we could take over anything... nor do we want to.

Aloha,

JB 
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