I want say something more about my decision to open the group in FB. There is many people the use the Rietveld method as a magic black box: insert the data, read the cif of the phase and obtain the results. Then they say "twenty-one" and "forty-one" when they see a symmetry group! Maybe a POP-group in FB can teach more about crystallography to a larger group of scientist! this is my opinion. Davide
-----Original Message----- From: rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr [mailto:rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr] On Behalf Of Lubomir Smrcok Sent: 08 June, 2015 2:49 PM To: Alan Hewat Cc: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook Dear Alan, There are plenty of people who call usage of so-called social networks (they are, in fact, very asocial) "a progress". I would suggest to consider De gustibus non est disputandum, but also Duo cum faciunt idem, non est idem. Although I am not member of any of those asocial nets and do not plan to be, I sometimes think of the end of such services like Gopher. Maybe we have around a generation, who prefers to share instead of to search, think & write. What a prefect opportunity for commercial companies :-) Best, Lubo On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Alan Hewat wrote: > I can understand that people have different ideas about the ideal > format for discussion, and for some of us email may seem a little "old > fashioned". I suppose we could also use Twitter or any of the other > social chattering forums. But multiple groups on the same subject > disperses the available information, and it would be good to have some > kind of consensus rather than individual initiatives. > The advantage of the Rietveld mailing list is that contributions > aren't anonymous, it is not commercial and no use is made of users' > information, publicity is limited, and there is a structured archive > of discussion that is open to all, even those who don't have an account. > > I myself simply inherited the list, but think it worth maintaining, > and would discourage members from posting to multiple groups on the > same subject. > > Alan. (What, me worry ? :-) > > On 8 June 2015 at 09:24, davide levy <davide.lev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good Morning > I created the Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook, > to speak about powder diffraction, Rietveld etc.. open for all > use powder diffraction. > https://www.facebook.com/groups/1087352967946225/ > Davide > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Please do NOT attach files to the whole list > <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com> Send commands to <lists...@ill.fr> eg: > HELP as the subject with no body text The Rietveld_L list archive is > on http://www.mail-archive.com/rietveld_l@ill.fr/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > -- > ______________________________________________ > Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE > <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com> +33.476.98.41.68 > http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat > ______________________________________________ > >
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