NavList:

Frank wrote:

> We're here to talk  about navigation, right? So go to it... you know
> how. :-)

Would talk about navigating the archives be considered appropriate? OK,
I'm leaving now.....  ;-)

--
GregR

--- FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:

>
> You wrote:
> "one that that I haven't seen  mentioned is getting a dump of the old
> mailing list.
> Even if it is a few  GB of data I'm sure some of us would be happy to
> store it. Multiple copies =  data security.
> So, is it possible?"
>
> Absolutely (and it's only  megabytes). Let me just invite everyone to
> relax
> about archives. Yes, there will  be one. In fact, there might easily
> be
> several. And yes, there are now multiple  copies. Dan Allen has
> maintained an
> extensive archive, as a single file, that  has already been copied by
> several list
> members.
>
> Instead of worrying  WHETHER there will be an archive in addition to
> google's
> self-archiving  functionality (there will be), how about
> brain-storming a
> little on what you  would LIKE in an archive...? One feature that I
> think we need
> (which other lists  do not need) is the ability to display
> space-formatted
> tables and multi-line  equations correctly. How many times has a
> Navigation List
> member sent a  carefully formatted list of some sort or a calculation
> to the
> list only to have  all the spaces removed when it hits the archive??
> It's
> annoying, and it's a  distinct disadvantage of the archive on
> i-DEADLINK-com.
>
> The archive on i-DEADLINK-com  has many holes in it. While I was working
> through
> some old messages today, I  came across one that had some Russian
> text in it. I
> was curious to see how the  old (i-DEADLINK-com) archive handled it. So I
> went to
> 1999 and clicked on April. There  were 29 messages sent to this list
> in April,
> 1999. See if you can find them!  :-)
>
> Incidentally, back in 1999, this list was called the "Navigation
> Mailing
> List", the posting address was navigationATronin.com, and each
> message  was
> pre-fixed with the tag [Nml], similar to the [NavList] tag we have
> now.  Things do
> change. Things have changed before.
>
> One final thought: post  about navigation. I say this not as a list
> manager,
> but as a person with long,  long experience in Internet discussion
> groups.
> When people engage in  meta-discussion and little else, the group
> quickly sours.
> We're here to talk  about navigation, right? So go to it... you know
> how. :-)
>
> -FER
> 42.0N  87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars 
>
>
> >
>


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