NavList:

heh

btw, I know very little about navigation which is why I joined the list.

So, is there any freely availble texts or do I have to buy an expensive book?


On 5/19/06, Greg R. <gregr_ingest@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Frank wrote:
>
> > We're here to talk  about navigation, right? So go to it... you know
> > how. :-)
>
> Would talk about navigating the archives be considered appropriate? OK,
> I'm leaving now.....  ;-)
>
> --
> GregR
>
> --- FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > You wrote:
> > "one that that I haven't seen  mentioned is getting a dump of the old
> > mailing list.
> > Even if it is a few  GB of data I'm sure some of us would be happy to
> > store it. Multiple copies =  data security.
> > So, is it possible?"
> >
> > Absolutely (and it's only  megabytes). Let me just invite everyone to
> > relax
> > about archives. Yes, there will  be one. In fact, there might easily
> > be
> > several. And yes, there are now multiple  copies. Dan Allen has
> > maintained an
> > extensive archive, as a single file, that  has already been copied by
> > several list
> > members.
> >
> > Instead of worrying  WHETHER there will be an archive in addition to
> > google's
> > self-archiving  functionality (there will be), how about
> > brain-storming a
> > little on what you  would LIKE in an archive...? One feature that I
> > think we need
> > (which other lists  do not need) is the ability to display
> > space-formatted
> > tables and multi-line  equations correctly. How many times has a
> > Navigation List
> > member sent a  carefully formatted list of some sort or a calculation
> > to the
> > list only to have  all the spaces removed when it hits the archive??
> > It's
> > annoying, and it's a  distinct disadvantage of the archive on
> > i-DEADLINK-com.
> >
> > The archive on i-DEADLINK-com  has many holes in it. While I was working
> > through
> > some old messages today, I  came across one that had some Russian
> > text in it. I
> > was curious to see how the  old (i-DEADLINK-com) archive handled it. So I
> > went to
> > 1999 and clicked on April. There  were 29 messages sent to this list
> > in April,
> > 1999. See if you can find them!  :-)
> >
> > Incidentally, back in 1999, this list was called the "Navigation
> > Mailing
> > List", the posting address was navigationATronin.com, and each
> > message  was
> > pre-fixed with the tag [Nml], similar to the [NavList] tag we have
> > now.  Things do
> > change. Things have changed before.
> >
> > One final thought: post  about navigation. I say this not as a list
> > manager,
> > but as a person with long,  long experience in Internet discussion
> > groups.
> > When people engage in  meta-discussion and little else, the group
> > quickly sours.
> > We're here to talk  about navigation, right? So go to it... you know
> > how. :-)
> >
> > -FER
> > 42.0N  87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
>
> >
>

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