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Re: Silicon Sea
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2003 Nov 14, 17:08 +0000
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2003 Nov 14, 17:08 +0000
Dan Hogan said- For personal reasons, I don't have the >time or the inclination to continue Silicon Sea to it's completion. Please >post your problems with any of the legs to the list...that's what it was set >up for. I respect Dan's decision, though regretting it. In my opinion Silicon Sea has provided a useful challenge, particularly to those "newbie" navigators who we need to attract if our list is to flourish. We can only guess at the amount of desk-work that's involved in the setting of those problems. We owe a debt of gratitute to Dan, who provides us with a playpen in which we can discuss and squabble and put the world to rights. Anything that causes him to be disenchanted is a serious matter. And here, I should admit to perhaps having added to that disenchantment. I have recently been pestering him, off-list, to revisit Silicon Sea 87. If that has played a part in his decision, then I'm sorry. As for SS87, I will discuss that in another posting. George. ================================================================ contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone at 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. ================================================================