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From: Bill (no email)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2006 - 00:47:41 EDT
> 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
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