NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
An experimental Navigation List
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Apr 3, 19:09 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Apr 3, 19:09 EDT
NavList ------- JOIN: NavList-subscribe@fer3.com LEAVE: NavList-@fer3.com WEB INTERFACE: http://groups.google.com/group/NavList This list is a descendant of Navigation-L, a mailing list which has been managed with great success and skill by Dan Hogan for several years. Due to some technical problems with that list, it seems like a good idea to start a new one using Google's Groups system (which is itself a descendant of "Usenet"). This is a highly reliable system by an organization which is likely to be around for the long term. To join the list, send an e-mail to NavList-subscribe@fer3.com To leave the list, send an e-mail to NavList-@fer3.com Note that the subject and body of the e-mail for subscribe and requests may be left blank. Requests will be followed by an automated confirmation request that will ask you to visit a rather long URL at google. Visit that URL and you're in. You can also drop me an e-mail and I can subscribe or you by hand. NavList and other google groups can be accessed via e-mail, like any traditional "listserv" e-mail list, or it may be accessed via a newsreader-style web interface on google's web site here: http://groups.google.com/group/NavList Bookmark this address! This is the easiest way to follow the list. When you visit the web interface, enter your e-mail address and select a password to edit settings for your membership to the list. The web interface is extremely convenient, but, like anything, it takes a little getting used to. Through the web interface, you can directly view current messages and message archives. Google has extensive experience managing and maintaining long-term group message archives. The intended purpose of this discussion group is essentially the same as Navigation-L. At the web interface page for NavList, you will find this description: "Discussions of Celestial Navigation, Traditional Marine Navigation, History of Navigation, GPS and Traditional Navigation, Terrestrial Mapping and Exploration, Determination of Latitude and Longitude, and Positional Astronomy." Please use normal etiquette in deciding whether side-discussions are off-topic. NavList permits message attachments, and these may be viewed very conveniently through the google web interface for the list above. I do not know whether attachments are archived on a long-term basis. Text and HTML attachments are automatically expanded. Image attachments appear as a convenient thumbnail which may be expanded or downloaded as desired. Please exercise reasonable etiquette when using attachments. They should be relevant, and they should be smaller than 50k when possible. Since attachments may be viewed as thumbnails, members of this group who are concerned about bandwidth limits for e-mail may find the web interface preferable to the older mailing list approach to this discussion group. Messages on NavList may be deleted from the archive by their authors. Please use this function sparingly, and note that it only affects messages seen through the web interface and message archive. E-mail copies of messages cannot be unsent using this function. A note on list ownership: A list "owner" has certain special powers such as the ability to delete messages and temporarily block abusive members. But these powers are extremely limited, easily circumvented, and there is no real "ownership" involved. Nonetheless, I understand that some people will be concerned that this new list is an attempt to usurp ownership of the older list Navigation-L. I would like to enlist between three and five other members of the list as "owners" as well, so that the ownership powers, limited though they are, are distributed. Certainly, I would like to make Dan Hogan a co-owner. Any other volunteers? -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
