Big Bertha Thing burster
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/gammaray.html
16K Web Page
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including sci.astro.seti

Gamma Ray Bursters

v1.0
01 feb 2000
Greg Goebel
public domain

Contents List:-
1.THE DISCOVERY OF GRBS
2.PINPOINTING A GRB
3.CAUGHT IN THE ACT
4.COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY


Big Bertha Thing publication

The statistics for Big Bertha Thing postings published
on sci.astro are as follows:-

20 No. 50K primary postings (out of 26)
2 No. 600K ditto (out of 4)
12 No. off-topic postings (out of 200)
4 No. 50K secondary postings (out of 26)
20 No. 4K ditto (out of 26)
20 No. 2K ditto (out of 26)
24 No. astronomical postings (out of 2000)

There was almost zero response to the above, which were
spread over 28 days, at the rate of two days per week.

Book-burners deleted the archive of Net Access Policy
postings prior to 2nd November 1998. Bertha saved those,
with the exception of replies and published 12.

The above were also posted to the Onenet conference
Astronomy & Space. Here days 18, 19, 20, were minimal
keep-off-the-grass days and on days 27 and 28 they
broke ranks. The on-topic filibuster of sound-bite
journalism ended, at 42 days old.
(The beginning of the end of spam.)
Thank you,
Tony Lance



From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.chem
Subject: Big Bertha Thing warlord
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:21:24 +0000

Saturday, November 15, 1997 12:40:38 PM
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Re(2): Fwd(3): Outlandish Request for Volunteers
To: Carol Yeats
Cc: Rick Holyomes
George Ho-Yow
FC Mods Discussion
Philip Sims
Big Bertha Thing 6(with apologies for use of CTRL R)

Please accept my apologies for troubling you. It will not of course be repeated.
However 3 mods have responded to my call to help out on the Conf. by volunteering.
In emergency situations, needs must. You and your fellow mods number 3 I see.
Mods have broad shoulders and thick skins and I trust compassion.
Thank you,
Tony Lance.


Big Bertha Thing 7

By way of light relief, a similar general apology, to the one
above, would bring solace and comfort, to the victims of such
well intentioned postings. Please put it in a Big Bertha and
address to CP Conf., Mods Conf. and Philip Sims. That of course,
would be the end of spam.