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I wonder if this happens to others, that you send a posting, and then on
reflection, you realise that its tone differs from what you really intended?
This happened to my last posting,[6147], which started-.

"It's a bad reflection on our art of navigation that such a simple matter as
correcting for index error should have brought about such misunderstanding
and confusion, among specialists in that art.."
and then went on to pick out a comment by Rick Emerson, that I took to be in
error.

Indeed, I still think that Rick was wrong in what he said in [6144], but it
looked, rather, as though I was ascribing that general level of
misunderstanding about index error to Rick's pen in particular. Which was
far from my intention.

What I was trying to say was that correcting for index error is such a basic
and straightforward concept, that it should present no problems, and it's
rather surprising, and somewhat shameful, that it appears to give rise to
difficulties among us navigators.

So I hope that Rick hasn't felt affronted by my words, which were not aimed
in his direction.

George.

contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.


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