
NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Two lists with a common topic
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 1, 21:49 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 1, 21:49 EDT
George, not to worry, there's no alternate universe here. We're not having lots of fascinating conversations about navigation without you! It's an EXPERIMENTAL list. Remember when I described it that way in the very first e-mail about it?? At that time, Navigation-L was crashed, dead as a doornail, completely unable to distribute messages, so it seemed like a good idea to experiment, at the very least. I and the others who have been experimenting with NavList on google have intentionally been trying (in my case at least) to keep posts rather trivial on that list in order to avoid a de facto schism. I (and I'm sure the other folks, too) have no desire to create another community. This isn't about busting up a list. It's simply the technical matter of trying a new server arrangement. In case you're curious, so far everything works beautifully. We've even got message numbers in the subject line (a feature you mentioned as desirable). I'm trying to get us up to 100 so that it's a fair experiment. Navigation-L, as presently hosted on webkahuna fails to deliver 1 or 2% of messages. That's not very good. On April 19, you sent a message to this list that begins, "Just in case it's of interest, here's what Eva Taylor has to say about David Thomson" etc. I received it in my e-mail, but this message never made it to the list archives on i-DEADLINK-com. Who knows how many other recipients didn't get it... Doesn't it bother you that your messages are failing to distribute completely? Finally: It is time for me to say this: your continuing comments about my "character" are inappropriate, to say the least, on this list or anywhere --and you know that. You KNOW that. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars