[vsnet-chat 7441] Is vsnet-alert becoming too much of a discussion group?

[Martin Nicholson]

Vsnet-alert exists to "distribute alert notices of important phenomena".

In the last couple of months - and I accept my share of the blame for this - many of the postings to vsnet-alert have NOT been alert notices but have been additional information or more general astronomical discussions or comments that should have been posted elsewhere.

I suspect that unless or until a specific prohibition is invoked and enforced by the list administrators nothing will change because asking some of the worse culprits to stop has certainly not worked in every case - has it?