NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Setting NavList DORMANT
From: N S Gurnell
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 16:53 -0700
From: N S Gurnell
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 16:53 -0700
No good deed goes unpunished --- Frank Reedwrote: > George H wrote: > ""With Frank in charge, I fear it would be like playing a game of > street football, when the other side owns the ball." > > That seems to heve been particularly prescient, now that Frank has > suddenly and unilaterally decided to walk off with his ball, and > suspend NavList; just like that." > > Insulting posts are inappropriate, and you know that. > > As for taking away your "ball", there is nothing that you CANNOT do now that > you COULD do previously. So where is this figurative "ball" that I have > supposedly taken away?? Relax, George. You haven't lost anything. > > I will reiterate: I have no interest in creating a schism in this discussion > group. Since the consensus which we had very nearly reached to shift to a > new list service fizzled, there is no point keeping a service which is > almost > functionally identical active. The only features lacking "here" on > Navigation-L are a web interface (which is a concept that confuses many) and > better > posting reliability. If those differences eventually become strong enough > reasons > to move the group to NavList on googlegroups, then we are all set to go! The > list is alive and fully-functional. :-) I would even be happy to see you, > George, as an owner of that list when we actually MOVE to that service > instead > of straddling the fence and/or creating a division within the community. > > All this talk about "taking away the ball" has got me thinking about a game > of pool. For those of you who make it Mystic in two weeks, I will have to > introduce you to a neighborhood pub. They have the only pool table in town. > It > costs a quarter to play (!!). > > -FER > 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com