NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: An experimental Navigation list
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Apr 12, 23:47 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Apr 12, 23:47 -0500
> Questions? Comments? Witty-remarks? They are all welcomed. What is this tempest in a teapot about? The archives (an entity independent of Dan) has skipped a beat in the past. We survived and thrived. The nav list, by virtue of not having a full-time (paid!) alpha geek to watch the server's blinking lights (discounting the the web's idiosyncrasies) has probably not caused a member to be lost at sea or has his/her hobby interest been inconvenienced to a legally actionable point ;-) Robert has been good enough to set up a repository for those that are willing to use bandwidth to upload or download larger items of mutual interest. As my parents use to to threaten, "You want something to complain about, I'll give you something to complain about." After hurricane Kartina, my ISP was up and down for days, has taken an average of three tries to connect since then, and until a week or two ago disconnected at will. Painful when you are trying to download Coast Pilot 6/Lake Michigan. Bullet proof my a-s! And I pay for that. Thank you to all the "unpaid" folks behind the scenes and contributors/mentors that make this a great forum for exchange. I am not against change for the better, but do believe that as human beings change is uncomfortable--even for the better. Now for a real gripe, what's with this? (Rim shot.) 19,000-year moon cycle, 26,000-year pole-star cycle (could it just be exactly at the axis of rotation and stay there?) And the planets--oy vey. Who planned that? I could go on, but the irony of it all is that the yellow box just popped up telling me I've been disconnected, so will call it a night and post tomorrow. Bill