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George wrote:
> 2. Zed appears to have the right skills to investigate the occasional
> troubles that have beset Nav-l over recent months, and make whatever
> changes may be appropriate. I hope that when he has settled in, that
> will be on his agenda.
Am not sure that George has any reasonable grounds for making this sweeping
assumption. Zed has kindly agreed to take over the caretaking role for the
time being (remember he has his own plans to go cruising). He has never
proposed taking the whole mechanism apart and rebuilding it, and I don't see
why we should expect him to. He has his own job, a young family, sailing and
nav interests - possibly more than enough on his plate already.
> 3. List policy has always been to discourage reference to
> radio-navigation techniques, except where this was trivial in extent,
> or had relevance to some discussion of traditional navigation. As I
> understand it, there isn't any outright ban.
>
> However, recent postings relating to intimate details of GPS have
> greatly exceeded any such tolerant guidelines. With a new skipper, it
> may be time to discuss whether that policy should be eased, but until
> that happens, it seems to me that existing policy should be respected.
It seems to me that a large part of this list's enduring success has been,
and hopefully will remain, its freedom to discuss pretty-well anything that
comes up for as long as there is interest in the topic. Let's keep it that
way. Regularly (go through the archives) electronic stuff has been discussed
throughout the past. The sky hasn't fallen in. Eventually interest passes
on, leaving us all enriched to whatever extent was possible from that topic.
What I have appreciated in the recent chat about satellites, etc; has been
the light-hearted tone, the humour. Sorely needed at the time. Thank you
all.
The last thing we need, George, is some new rigid regime. If that is what
you (or anyone else) wants, feel free to go off and start up your own list.
