New home for IDL newsgroup

posted Tue 23 Jan 2018 by Michael Galloy under IDL

The IDL Usenet newsgroup has moved to a Google Group:

This Google Group is a continuation of the Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, but allows for better spam filtering. It is for discussion of the Interactive Data Language (IDL), developed by Harris Geospatial Corporation. Questions about ENVI, a geospatial analytics software written in IDL are welcome. Discussion of the similar PV-WAVE language is also allowed.

The big question now is how to save the posts from the old newsgroup.

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Paulo Penteado says:
April 23rd, 2018 at 10:27 am
I compiled a searchable archive of all (I hope) posts from the old newsgroup, with all spam removed. I put it on the new Coyote website, at

http://www.idlcoyote.com/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/

Paulo

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