Re: Adding Secondary High Voltage Mail List group ? ? ?

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Original poster: "Mike Harrison by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk>

On Sat, 03 May 2003 12:12:47 -0600, you wrote:

 >Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
<jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 >There was a hvlist (run by Steve Roys) but I haven't heard much on it, and
 >there are some online forums covering HV stuff in general.
 >Some of the folks on this list participate in the forums.
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 9:59 AM
 >Subject: Adding Secondary High Voltage Mail List group ? ? ?
 >
 >
 > > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
 ><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 > >
 > > Terry, Chip, Group,
 > >
 > > I was wondering what the possibility was or if there is any interest in
 > > adding another discussion category.
 > >
 > > For example:
 > >
 > > 1.  Tesla Coil Maillist (what we currently have)
 > > 2.  High Voltage Maillist (all general high voltage topics and non-tesla
 > > coil hv applications)
 > >
 > > We have an absolutely incredible member / knowledge base on the pupman
 >group
 > > and it seems a shame to limit this knowledge
 > > base only to the primary discussion of tesla coils.  Most if not all the
 > > members of the group have additional high voltage
 > > interests that extend beyond tesla coils.   These other high voltage
 >topics
 > > may include high voltage power supplies / generators, pulse networks,
 > > general high voltage design and theory, etc...
 > >
 > > One recent example, is the discussions regarding Marx generators.
 >Although
 > > this topic has not been officially declared
 > > offtopic and "killed" yet, it really has nothing to do with tesla coils
 >and
 > > is probably eventually destined to be "killed"
 > > by one of the moderators.  However, there is much interest in this topic
 >and
 > > would be an excellent topic to keep alive in a second high voltage mailing
 > > list.  Members who don't really care about these offtopics can simply not
 > > subscribe to this second list or vice versa.

I think that the subject of Marx gens in particular, and  spark-oriented HV 
topics in general is
sufficiently 'close' to Tesla Coiling that a large proportion of the Tesla 
list would have some
interest/expertise, and is likely to generate sufficiently few postings that
a) most Tesla list members would not object to such topics, and
b) would not generate sufficient traffic on their own to justify a seperate 
list - lists with little
traffic tend to die out without a 'critical mass' of postings.

I think it may be useful to consider widening  the scope of this list a 
little to cover subjects
like this.
Although HV in general is too wide a topic, perhaps something like 'Tesla 
coils (and other HV
devices whose primary purpose is to make sparks)' would cover the majority 
of topics likely to be of
interest to the majority of the list, without widening it too far into 
areas like lifters etc. which
have their own active lists.