[SJAAboard] Thoughts on requirements for scopes larger than 10"

[Mark Wagner]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 10:31 pm, Craig Scull wrote:

> I'm not saying that I am "normal" by any means

I'm not saying it either! ;-)

But then, being normal sounds pretty boring...

>, but there may be other reasons people get scopes
> than just prepurchase eval, and for this reason I would not hold tight to the strict criteria that
> every single telescope in the program must be a mass-market available for purchase scope. I think
> we can have a little bit of diversity in there, like maybe 10% of the scopes should not be
> required to be "mainstream."

To me, that's what we should debate at our board meeting, with opinions from any outsiders who
would care to give input...