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Re: NAV-L vs. Google NavList
From: Robert Gainer
Date: 2006 Apr 4, 18:32 -0400
From: Robert Gainer
Date: 2006 Apr 4, 18:32 -0400
Dan, I enjoy the list and find the archive great reading. In fact I wish I had a copy of the archive on my laptop so that I could read it at home. I live on my boat in the summertime and don?t have Internet after I leave work. Do you have the archive in a way that you can send me a copy? How do you search it? Do you use a database program setup as a front end? Thanks, Robert Gainer > > From: Dan Allen> Date: 2006/04/04 Tue PM 05:37:44 EDT > To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM > Subject: NAV-L vs. Google NavList > > (* Reposted to NAV-L *) > > On 4 Apr 2006, at 10:27 AM, George Huxtable wrote: > > > With Frank in charge, I fear it would be like playing a game of > > street football, when the other side owns the ball. > > > > I am going to need more persuading, before venturing into this new > > lifeboat, until certain that the old familiar vessel is actually > > sinking, not just suffering a temporary breakdown. > > I understand your concern George. If NAV-L has just had a minor > problem and will return to reliable service, I do not know if we > really need a Google Group. > > However, if NAV-L support is not long for this world, then we do need > to jump ship to something that will last into the future. > > I think Frank did the prudent thing: he created a list to get it > going as a backup. He took action. I like that about Frank. If NAV- > L was down, how was Frank going to bring it up for discussion on the > list? He couldn't. But he could get something else going, which he > accomplished. > > The hard question is this: is NAV-L under Dan Hogan's excellent care > finished? If so, I say we all move to the Google NavList group and > move on. However, I do not know if this is the case or not. It does > appear that I have been getting NAV-L messages the past couple of > days, but I think the real issue is the list archives. > > It seems to me the decision revolves around the list archives. I > personally never use the list archives because I have my own copy of > every mail since July of 1997. I just search through it all on my > own machine. My archive is local and does not depend upon a website. > > Of course new members need the list archives, as do many others. If > the NAV-L list archive is gone for good, perhaps a move to Google's > group should happen. On April 1st, 2006 Dan Hogan wrote on NAV-L: > > "Well I don't know of any servers that will accept our archives. So > I am open to suggestions." > > Frank tried Google Groups as a proof of concept. Most (all?) of us > have never created a group or tried to get one going. I want to > thank Frank Reed for taking the initiative and his time to provide a > possible solution. Now we need to determine if we should all move to > it and embrace it and move forward, or someone else should propose a > different solution - and do the work of getting that solution going. > Until somebody else can provide as much as Frank has provided, I do > not think there is much to recommend hanging on to the NAV-L list, > and I think there is a lot to recommend us moving to the NavList on > Google Groups. > > Comments? Proposals? Solutions? They are all welcomed of course. > > Dan Allen >