Dear Dialists, The responses to my previous comments regarding the use of a section of ridge dial to replace gnomons on more standard dials in order to make them more rugged and harder to vandalize has shown there is a general lack of awareness of "ridge" dials in general. The subject is, in fact, a very vast subject and hard to select just a few examples as "representative". So ... I'll write up a bit more on them than a simple message and post it on a site to download. Bear in mind that this is one of my busiest seasons so it may be delayed.
Another subject: The various "off topic" discussions that erupt from time to time would seem to just be evidence of enthused conversation where links between enjoyable subjects are explored. To break these up into tightly walled specific lists would not work well at all. Of course they may clog the communication channel so that it should not be over done either. It is a shame that we couldn't have a "broad" list where such expanded subject areas could be explored without filling the "narrow" channel list. Another subject: New default reply on the list. I can handle making a new habit for this list. It is good to have the various lists be somewhat consistent in this regard. If one looks through the message that is sent out by the list owner every so often, there is an address to send to in order to get the full current list of members names and email addresses. Any decent email client should allow one to filter the email stream for this list of people/organizations so that spam can be more easily recognized. Yes, adding our email reply to our signature may be a good idea, yet it would make it easier for spammers to bomb us as well. Also, yes, it would be be nice if something like (sndl) proceeded each item sent through the list so that we could even easier filter the good stuff into a sundial list folder. I really do enjoy this list, off topic subjects as well!! Edley McKnight [43.126N 123.527W] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
