Bill Jackson is the NSS Fundraising Chairman. I passed along your concerns to
him, and his response is below.
(forwarded by Wm Shrewsbury)
Jerry, the emailed message from the Fundraising Chair reports the needs of your
Society. This one was to let everyone know we need
Once again those caving skills come in handy.
You just never know.
-Original Message-
From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of
Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 9:52 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re:
what a glorious time travel video. every part was familiar and made me laugh.
I started caving on the cusp of do it yourself, sew your own seat harness,
cobble together gear and bop a pit, golondrinas in my case. golden days.
indestructible rope technique at its finest.
most recently I
You're correct Bill - we (well, I) knew exactly what "404" meant, having been a
programmer since 1972. As I was writing the announcement in the evening of
December 15th, 2011, after having signed the paperwork earlier in the day, I
looked for an amount that wouldn't be too much to ask for, but
Actually, Stephen, they knew about 404 when they came up with that name. I
guess it was just the number of $25 a month recurring donations they needed to
cover the mortgage payments. Or maybe they thought using 404 made it memorable
because of the number's notoriety. During the campaign, they
The biggest faux pax that I see with "Team 404" is that no one Googled "Team
404" before deciding on the name (and found out that it is already in common
usage), or that if you just put in "404" you get links, etc. to the "Page not
found" error one gets when a server cannot deliver the page you
