Re: A rival system

["Dirk Terrell" <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>]

On Wed, 28 May 2003 15:31:57 -0500, Michael Koppelman wrote:

>Do I presume it is a concept you do not deplore? I'm ignorant on the 
>subject, but something about it seems not right to me. Is that how most 
>observatories work?

I think it's quite reasonable to allow the people who put in the
considerable effort of obtaining data to have the first shot at
analyzing the data. After a reasonable period (usually a year), the
data enter into the public domain. 

Dirk