commercial manufacture of lenses and mirrors

It isn't. And it wasn't the last time you asked a telescope question, either.

Why don't you just contact the commercial manufacturers and ask THEM?

If you aren't as you say anywhere near Boston, whyinhell are you posting off a MIT server? Too cheap to get an ISP of your own?

I'm beginning to understand why so few people post to this NG. If this is the greeting you get...

Try posting your question to rec.crafts.metalworking, with a "OT" in the header. The place is full of knowlegeable people who are willing to discuss just about any topic.

-- Bill Browne

You have a great point there Bill. The last and only time I posted to this group until now, I got a number of really uncalled-for replies and a few which actually solved my On-Topic question about cutting lubricants for glass. Interestingly the few replies I got of value were direct e-mails. It appears that there a number of knowledgable lurkers hanging around. I certainly don't condone spamminga NG but I didn't find this question all that offensive espcially when this is a lean NG. The one you mentions gets hundreds of posts daily and you are right they do try to help even OT posters (sometimes ad nauseum)

Best regards, Charles

You don't like it? Tough. Use your fillfile.

Thought top posting in NGs was for newbies?

Geez Charles, you really hold a grudge, I had to go back a ways to find that thread, 11/2003, and your question was answered in the 2nd post after by jk Sinrod, did you want more answers or different answers? The rest was just friendly jabber, total waste of bandwidth, really, but friendly all the same.

and sometimes a post just rubs the wrong way, like this one obviously did. Next thing you know, you'll want to know how to make things in glass "perfectly flat" , oops, answered that one already way back in November.

While admitting sometimes saying nothing is better than responding to some posts, some days folks (me?) just get up on the wrong side of the bed and feel like letting off a little steam to a post that seems to be asking for it.

Too hot here? Oh well.

You might want to ask on the ATM mailing list:

Go to the site for the Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona which makes huge cast glass mirrors and ask them.

"Top posting"?

-- Bill Browne

stigmatism.

astigmatism

The intelligent response I was expecting....

-- Bill Browne

You'd have to have a functioning brain before you could discern an intelligent response.

I actually have a good impression of this NG and have been posting sporadically here for a long time. In the case of my question about commerical lenses and mirrors, I've gotten a few helpful answers and I appreciate them.

Sincerely, Allan Adler snipped-for-privacy@zurich.ai.mit.edu

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The part that amazes me most, is that you really don't realize what a pompous ass you are being. Or maybe you do. It's easy to talk big when you're hiding behind a computer monitor.

You talk to your customers the way you talk to people on this NG?....You'd starve to death.

-- Bill Browne

You think?

Little do you know.