[Molvis-list] Drop in use of this list

[Dan Bolser]

Eric Martz wrote:
> Dear MolVis-List Subscribers,
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> During 1996-2004, this list averaged 1.15 messages/day (420/year, range 
> 352-526). There was no trend in traffic despite the fact that in the 
> first few years, there were less than half as many subscribers.
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> Last year, the traffic dropped to 1/3 of the previous level (132 in 
> 2005, 0.36/day). In the first half of 2006, there were 89 messages 
> (about 0.5 messages/day).
> 
> The number of subscribers plateaued at about 600 from 2001 through 2004, 
> but has now grown to 740.
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> I suspect that the dizzying level of traffic on the jmol-users list, and 
> the well-justified excitement about Jmol, has diverted some traffic from 
> molvis-list. I myself am working more and more with Jmol.
> 
> Of course, modest traffic is not necessarily bad, especially if the 
> quality of, and interest in message content is high.
> 
> As a reminder, quoting from our website 
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> Feel free to use this list! Ideas to increase the usefulness of this 
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> I'd like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to Tim Driscoll, who has 
> kindly taken over the day to day maintenance of this list on a volunteer 
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> spam, thereby sparing us from all receiving it -- so I'm sure you 
> appreciate him too!

How much spam gets through the members list? (Or is this an 'anyone can 
post' list?)



I wonder if anyone can tell me how to select only the 'aligned' residues 
in pymol after running the 'align x, y' command?

I see that atoms (and distinct residues?) are rejected during the 
alignment, but how can I 'see' them?

Cheers,

Dan.



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