This email is a rebuttal to Mr. Mixon's. First of all, I am a card-carrying member to both the Terry Raines Fan Club, and the Bill Mixon Fan Club.
In the fall of 1989, there was an urgent need to get a caving book out about Mexico, because everything was out of print or in very limited supply, and certainly not easily acceptable to independent cavers like me. There was only one caver on the Earth capable of doing anything about that and that was the honorable Terry Raines. He volunteered to step up to an enormous challenge to have a book ready at the first Mexpeleo gathering. I got the impression he had no support from the caving community, and had to do it all on his own at his own expense. I think he stayed up all night and drove non-stop to the gathering in Ciudad Valles to show off a copy. I liked the database format. The book should have been entitled, "The Mexpeleo Convention Field guide." I do not see any reason, why it could not be fixed and republished as a web-colloboration among cavers. That being said I do not personally have anything against book critics, and I do think Bill is a great book critic. David Locklear dlocklea...@gmail.com
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