volcanologists decision makers? Dronen**Then the hardware/network folks from the Scientific Computing Center which we talkedabout earlier. lankes**Are the volcanologists decision makers? Dronen**Final decisions are made by the Principal Investigator, one of the volcanologists. lankes**Do the volcanologists answer all the questions? Dronen**Then, the tree others and myself are part of the decision making process. lankes**Do the volcanologists answer all the questions? Dronen**Yes, the volcanologists answer all questions. lankes**Are tehy all paid? lankes**tehy=they Dronen**Currently they are, but there have been times when they donated months of their time. lankes**So how are the questions themselves answered...what is that process? Dronen**Questions are distributed to the volcanologist using certain rules. These question aresent using email. lankes**What are the rules? Dronen**The volcanologist answers the question using a reply, so the "asker" gets the responsedirectly. Dronen**Rules vary according to current workload of each volcanologist. For example, right nowone volcanologist Dronen**gets 4 days of questions, the second get 2 and the last gets one. Dronen**Does that make sense? lankes**Except you said there were four volcanologists. Dronen**Oh, sorry. The PI gets all questions just for reference, but in general doesn't answerthem. lankes**Oh, do you have software to gather and distribute the questions, or is all of this donein off-the-shelf e-mail software? Dronen**Each volcanologist can use whatever email software they want. The distribution happenson our end and is done through software our programmers have devellped. lankes**can you describe the custom software? Dronen**Sure, it is nothing special acually. It is a simple program, written in PERL for UNIXwhich just on the day s we specify changes the recipient of the ask a volcanologist questionsto the proper person. lankes**So there is no triage per say, all incoming questions g...
