Alright, if the image deposition is the only way out, then I am for it, but 
please make sure that synchrotrons will do it for me...

On Apr 5, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.) wrote:

> Ojweh....
> 
>> c) Discarding your primary data is generally considered bad form...
> Agreed, but it is a big burden on labs to maintain archives of their raw
> data indefinitely. 
> Even IRS allows to discard them after some time. 
> 
> But you DO have to file in the first place, right? How long to keep is an
> entirely different question. 
> 
>> What is wrong with partially integrated data in terms of structure
> validation? 
> 
> Who thinks something is wrong with that idea? Section 3.1 under figure 3 of
> said incendiary pamphlet 
> states:  '...yadayada....when unmerged data or images for proper
> reprocessing are not available
> owing to the unfortunate absence of a formal obligation to deposit unmerged
> intensity data or diffraction images.'
> 
>> They did not generate the bad data.
> This is a genuine American thinking! 
> 
> Ok, the US citizens on BB might take this one up on my behalf, gospodin ;-)
> видеть вас на Лубянке.
> 
>> But they might create conditions that would prevent their deposition.
> 
> Sure. We are back to the 2007 Reid shoe bomber argument. If you make PDB
> deposition
> a total pain for everybody, you don't get compliance, you get defiance. Ever
> seen
> any happy faces in a TSA check line? 
> 
> Anyhow, image deposition will come.
> 
> Over and out, BR 
> 
> 

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