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Sad news indeed. George was a real gentleman. I had many side-bar
conversations with him over the years. He was very knowledgeable and an
interesting man to talk to.

RIP George.

Robert
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From: "clive" 
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:45 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Admin: text-only messages, annual indexes,
author-specific indexes, and more


> Frank;
> It is with great sadnest that I  should tell everyone on the list that
> George Huxtable will be unable to respond to all his friends on the nav
> list anymore.George died on early in December from a protracted illness.
> He had had a re-accurrance of Cancer earlier in the year that eventually
> was untreatable and he died at home at Southmoor, Abingdon near Oxford. He
> was buried there just before Christmas .His wife Joan will still be living
> at their house but as yet will not be replying to emails.
> I am and have been a reader of Navlist for many years and any messages for
> her I will gladly pass on. I can be contacted at
> 
>
> George was born just before the start of the 1939-45 war in Liverpool and
> we both shared experience of  the Blitz years there. many years later he
> became a Physicist and worked at Harwell Atomic Research Labs were I met
> him through a shared interest in sailing. He had developed a passionate
> interest in navigation and was to became a Fellow of the Royal Institute
> of Navigation.
>  His particular interest was in CN, in the practise of Lunars and a great
> deal of his activity on the list was in this field. Many of you will have
> shared this interest and will greatly miss his expert corespondance. I am
> very pleased to be reminded by Frank that his words will live on through
> the benefit of the list archives.
>
> Yours with regret
> Clive.
>
>
> On 30/12/2011 07:24, Frank Reed wrote:
>>
>> There are a couple of people over the years who have requested an option
>> for plain text delivery of NavList messages. These are now available.
>> Attachments are listed as links. If any of you would prefer this option,
>> let me know and I will set it up for you.
>>
>> I've added new indexes of full years of NavList messages. You can find
>> those in the archives section of the message board web site here:
>> http://fer3.com/arc. The new indexes also permit subject and author
>> searching though for now this requires a little editing of the URL. For
>> example, out of the nearly 33,000 messages available, if you would like
>> to see all 2,683 messages posted by George Huxtable, you would go this
>> web address (URL):
>> http://www.fer3.com/arc/sort2.aspx?y=199401&y2=202001&author=huxtable
>> Or to see all 1,805 messages from Gary L, you would go here:
>> http://www.fer3.com/arc/sort2.aspx?y=199401&y2=202001&author=lapook
>> Or to see all 2,973 messages from me, you would go here:
>> http://www.fer3.com/arc/sort2.aspx?y=199401&y2=202001&author=frank%20reed
>>
>> Sorting of messages is now by UT, which should help a bit. Messages are
>> listed individually and in the indexes by the author's name even over the
>> course of various email address changes that many of us have had over the
>> years. Oh and names with diacritics (umlauts and such) display properly,
>> too. URLs for messages are now "friendlier". This should help with search
>> engine rankings. As an example, here's a message from George Huxtable
>> from the year 2000:
>> http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Blish-prism-sextant-Huxtable-jul-2000-w2818
>> You'll notice that it includes keywords from the subject, the author's
>> name or some portion thereof, and the month and year of the message. This
>> makes links more self-explanatory. The older method using plain numerical
>> indexes still works, of course. The new URLs are automatically generated
>> as messages come in.
>>
>> Let me know if you post any bugs or other issues.
>>
>> -FER
>>
>>
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