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Frank,
I took your advice and put my e-mail address into Google tonight and found 
that I am now down to two entries. One is my Yahoo profile from the time I 
was foolish enough to join a mailing list there and the other is a dead link 
similar to some of the ones you found when you looked up my address. They are 
only in Googles cache now and the last one will disappear soon. That means I 
will have only one, the Yahoo profile, still to fix and that one will 
disappear in the next day or two.  The e-mail address you use to get onto the 
Google system is a problem and I will not participate because I will have the 
same problem I had with my old address. That address in overwhelmed with spam 
and the only difference in the two now is where I permit it to be seen on the 
internet. To use the Google mailing list you need to give them an e-mail 
address, just like Yahoo. IT WILL OPEN YOU UP TO SPAM, NOW OR IN THE FURTURE. 
You do not have control over how and when they will distribute your addres!
 s or if a bot / spider will find your address. I worked hard to clean my 
e-mail address from the internet and I will not just throw it away because 
you are nervous about something that has not, and may not happen. Nothing in 
life is foolproof and dropping 1% of the lists output is fine by me and 
besides people have the amazing mental power to sort it out and put the 
pieces together for themselves.

By the way, I was curious about how I would come up if you searched by ?robert 
gainer? + sailing. I have been more active on the internet then I was aware 
of. And the third thing to come up was an archive that had 30 seconds of a TV 
interview with me done by David Brinkley that aired on NBC Evening News for 
Tuesday, Nov 02, 1976 that you could buy for 100 dollars. The sailboat ride 
that lead to that was a trip and a half.The sailboat ride that lead to that 
was a trip and a half. But it amazes me that someone went and collected then 
cataloged old news clips about trivial subjects from thirty years ago.
Robert Gainer

>
> From: Frank Reed 
> Date: 2006/05/05 Fri PM 04:50:44 EDT
> To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
> Subject: Re: Mirror problem
>
> George H writes ominously:
> "Such problems  illustrate precisely the complications I foresaw in an
> earlier thread "Two lists  with a common topic"."
>
> Yes, I also saw a cat chatting amiably with a dog.  And the barley in my soup
> last night aligned pefectly in the shape of a crescent  moon. And now
> cross-postings to lists!! These are all signs of the end times.  Repent, sinners!
>
> Actually, George, I can't fathom how Alex managed to  confuse the two lists.
> He's a smart guy, and each and every NavList message is  marked with a tag (as
> you've seen) that indicates it's from NavList and gives  its message number.
>
> So, George, why don't you just sign up to NavList?  What are you afraid of?
> You are one of a handful of hold-outs. If we can get the  last few over, I can
> change the name to Nav-L, make Dan H owner (if he wants the  work), and that
> will be that.
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N  72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>

   

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