Oh, I didn't realize that my comment was understood by Alan C. as an insult. It was definitely not thought as that. My excuses. Thank you, Alan H., for commenting on that. I must admit that English is definitively not my mother tongue.
I summarize, at least for me, that the best way how to continue the "tweet" on powder diffraction is to let evolve Rietveld mailing list to something more attractive and powerful (wiki? Wordpress?) but not towards (a)social networks. Have a nice evening (in Europe and Africa), morning (in Australia and Asia) and day (in Amerika) Radovan Radovan Cerny Laboratoire de Cristallographie, DQMP Université de Genève 24, quai Ernest-Ansermet CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Phone : [+[41] 22] 37 964 50, FAX : [+[41] 22] 37 961 08 mailto : radovan.ce...@unige.ch URL : http://www.unige.ch/sciences/crystal/cerny/rcerny.htm De : alan.he...@gmail.com [mailto:alan.he...@gmail.com] De la part de Alan Hewat Envoyé : mardi 9 juin 2015 17:35 À : Alan Coelho Cc : Othman Al Bahri; rietveld_l@ill.fr Objet : Re: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook the Rietveld mailing list is still where the best knowledgeable is That's encouraging Alan. Thanks. Concerning the number of posts you are right - there are fewer now. I would like to think it's because we have an archive now, and people profit from past answers rather than asking the same questions over again, which used to be common. Or perhaps its because there are now more channels of information. While the number of posts has diminished, the number of members has grown continually. There are now more than 1500, but some well known names only post when they see a particularly interesting question. Whenever there is a good question, we receive good answers. As for insults, I thought Radovan's "cleavage between Troglodytes and Tweeters" was quite amusing. And every time we have a little controversy, we get new members. One shouldn't assume that because fewer people post, there are fewer people interested. But certainly prepare a graph if you wish. Just don't post it to all 1500+ members :-) Kind regards, Alan. ______________________________________________ Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com<mailto:alan.he...@neutronoptics.com>> +33.476.98.41.68 http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat ______________________________________________
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