> In Seamanish: The sound of the event-driven hordes stampeding to the
> cooling waters of semantic vocabularies has been not unlike that of
> a dripping faucet.
Indeed - and the sound we want is more like a largish bloat of wallowing hippos.
> I wasn't suggesting that I liked "JohnsonPhotometry" or "rMagnitude"
> - they came from the IAU thesaurus.
I'd keep the IAU-T as it has been handed to us (delta some modest corrections).
> Frankly, I'd generally prefer Rob's choice of terms.
As would all right thinking individuals.
> Another sign that VOEvent could do us all a service by forcing down-
> to-earth solutions to down-to-earth problems.
Start bellowing you mighty river Clydesdales!