Patience everyone

[Mickey Rowe <rowe@psych.ucsb.edu>]

As everyone on the dinosaur list should be aware, we at dinosaur list
management strongly discourage discussion on the list of what should
be discussed on the list.  (I hope that makes sense...)  Nevertheless,
since the topic was broached by several of you during the past day and
a half let me put a sharp final point on the subject that brought it
all up.

You may or may not think that embargoes of information on soon-to-be
published papers are a good thing.  I don't care.  Unless you are
discussing your own work (i.e., it is *you* that may be harmed by
breaking the embargo) you should not discuss such things on the
dinosaur list.  I'm debating adding a section to the administrative
web page about this... if I do, the punishment is likely to be your
immediate removal from the list even for a first infraction.  That's
how seriously *I* take the embargo issue.  I understand everybody
wants to know things immediately and share their excitement.  That's
always fun until somebody puts an eye out (my apologies to people
outside the US who may not understand that reference).

Please use some common sense... how could any of you even consider
continuing to talk about the paper and post links to pictures even
after you were explicitly told the information was covered by an
embargo?  And if you think I'm being harsh now, wait until it happens
again.  But please make it a LONG wait.

If you want to talk about this at all, please write directly to me.
Do *not* write to the list about it.  Please see the last paragraph of
section 8h on the administrative web page before even thinking about
writing to the list on the subject of embargoes:

http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/~rowe/dinosaur-administrivia.html#no_nos

This thread ends NOW.

-- 
Mickey Rowe     (rowe@psych.ucsb.edu)