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Re: List scope

> Perhaps now is a good time to open public discussion on the desired 
> scope of this list.  It appears that there are more than a few people 
> interested in HV.  I like to think of myself as being reasonable and 
> open to suggestion. However, I also do not want to have the list 
> decay into something that ends up wasting people's time with 
> discussions on topics that are not related to the list that they signed 
> up for.  
> 
> So, the question goes out to the list members.  What is the general
> consensus?

I will cast my vote to open the scope of the list up to more general HV 
experimentation.  I am interested in electrostatics, xrays, and the 
like, and it seems that, in addition to being very interesting, a lot of the 
HV topics dovetail nicely with high voltage Tesla coil experimentation.

I would suggest, however, that the signal/noise ratio be maintained at 
it's current (excellent) level and that the list stay primarily attuned to 
the dedicated amateur builder and experimenter.  If the list starts 
getting swamped with a lot of new-age crap (like theories about how 
Tesla was dropped off from the Venusian mother ship), or free energy 
bs that can't be verified without spending a fortune and a few years 
arranging a few tons of steel and aluminum objects, three Tesla coils, 
four VanDeGraffs, two radio transmitters, a couple of spark gaps and 
a toaster oven to produce an energy field that will levitate and possibly 
shred a piece of steel when the phase of the moon, the solar flux, and 
the location of the neighbor's cat all precisely align themselves, then 
it's time to pull the plug.


Steven Roys (sroys-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu)