Greetings!

My name is Randy Muller, and I am from Roseville, CA, and I am the
founder of TAC-SAC (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tac-sac/). I
was one of the original members here, back when this list was created
in 2002.

Today I was invited to help clean up the spam here, and implement some
anti-spam protective measures, like we have on TAC-SAC. There are now
3 list co-owners here: Michael Huster, Professor of Science at
Simpson University in Redding, Mark Wagner, founder of TAC
(http://observers.org/) and me. Our goal is to clear the spam, revive
the list and re-focus on observing.

I believe we have eliminated all the spammers and have removed the spam.

If you have been afraid to post because of the spam, worry no longer!
We want this to be a safe place to discuss visual observational
astronomy and learn from each other.

Please encourage your friends who might be interested in visual
observational astronomy to join here and discuss observing plans. If
you know people who have left because of them spam, or for any other
reason, encourage them to come back.

A new moon weekend is coming up!