I prefer the current nomenclature.   Oddly, my iPhone makes a shutter noise 
when I take a picture and there is no shutter.  Sometimes the old names are 
fine.

Matt Hogstrom
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“To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough 
time.”
- Leonard Bernstein



> On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:16 AM, David Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The notion of "PDS compression" has a long and time honored history... But 
> then along came... well, actual compression!
> 
> As we all know, PDS compression has nothing to do with data compression. All 
> it does is rearrange the physical location of members so as to eliminate the 
> holes (foam? gas?) that has arisen between them.
> 
> Historically, we have called that "compression", but in this day and age 
> continuing to call it that no longer is an option.
> 
> Has anyone come up with a better term that I missed while not looking?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David Cole
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