NavList:

Short version: don't be afraid to post NavList messages. See below!

I wrote previously:

All of you who receive copies of NavList messages as individual emails, PLEASE REPLY to this message and answer this: 
Do you wish to continue to receive NavList messages as individual emails? As we transition to new servers, reducing email use and identifying inactive email accounts will be important.

Note that your replies, in this specific instance, will not be treated as NavList messages and will not be visible to other NavList readers (or anyone else except me). If you do not reply, and you have been receiving messages, then email delivery will be turned off soon, but of course you will still have full access to the NavList message boards as a member. In your reply please include your name and the likely email attached to your NavList email subscription (if you're forwarding email from an old account, this may not be the same as the email address where you normally read NavList messages).

Thanks!

A FEW ITEMS:
I got an email reply (and I said these were private so I'm not saying from whom, but feel free to jump in and claim authorship if you wish!) as follows:
"It's been a while since I visited the web page, but my recollection is that some sort of user ID code is needed to post any content there. If that's true, you may as well assign a code to everyone who answers your request."

First, just so you know, you don't need to use a posting code. You can just enter your name and an email address. The posting code is merely a shorthand, and it's not intended to be high-security. It just makes it easier to identify spam, though I will probably add more functions soon. If you don't know your posting code, there's an easy item on the "Tools" menu on the website that will send it to you. And of course, don't forget, this isn't a website run by an A.I. It's run by an "I". A me. Ahem... It's run by me. So if you need any help, you just drop me an email (Frank@ReedNavigation.com). For example, if after reviewing your assigned access code, you decide you don't like it, and you would prefer an easier access code, I can do that for you. There is a fixed pattern, which I would like to maintain, but within the pattern (email for details) you can have what you want.

Your idea or emailing everyone who needs their access code is a good one. New "members" get them when they sign up.

For the rest of you out there, I received one puzzling email from someone who mis-read this "ADMIN" message and somehow interpreted it to mean that they should not send NavList emails anymore (!), or that they should at least wait until the server move is complete. No, no, no! POST messages. There is NO PROBLEM like that. If, on the other hand, the decline of NavList continues, then I will consider other options.

I asked those of you who receive emails to confirm that you still want to receive them. I asked this primarily to deal with the issue of dead recipients --both NavList members who have literally died (*) and also people who have abandoned email accounts or have merely lost interest. Emails going nowhere are often tagged as spam, so that's not good!

Frank Reed

* Above I mentioned NavList members who have passed on. This is an unpleasant task that I have to deal with on a regular basis. We all know that this community has a sharply skewed demographic. Now and then you hear about a prominent member, someone who posts regularly, who has died. There are five times as many who are "lurkers" or quiet members. And when they die, sometimes months later I will receive an email asking me to turn off email delivery. There are, no doubt, an equal number whose email is simply never checked again after they have died... This is the primary reason that I need to purge the email recipient lists every few years.