It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
The presence of the sundial archive on YAHOO! is something I brought up
about a year ago. No one replied, I don't believe. I think no one knew
then
the origin of those postings which were transferred, _en masse_, to YAHOO!
It's been a standing mystery to me. Also, it's been mysterious that the
postings
end in about 2001. I think they were are you surmise: that is, that they
were
the record of a group which had gone defunct in the original place, and were
then
collectively transferred. How curious! I wonder how that was done... .
I believe you are the fellow who made the fine analematic sundial of stone
which is stationed at the sidewalk just south of the Flandrau Planetarium,
on
the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. What a beautiful job. I work
in
the building (LPL) next door, and admire the dial often. I enjoy seeing the
position of the shadow of the spherical shadow-caster against the dial
furniture, and enjoy estimating the Date based on the position of the shadow
within the Declination lines inscribed. Of course, I usually guess the date
about right. ;-)
BTW, I think it would be most wonderful if this list were a YAHOO!, or
other,
group, so that an archive would be present on the Web, obviating email
receipt
and transmission of topical material. I wonder if anyone else feels the
same, and
might be motivated and able to instigate and accomplish that.
with thanks,
--Joe Montani / Tucson
From: John Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martha Vargas has located a partial archive of The
Sundial Email List. For some unknown reason the last posting in the
Archive was posted back in 2001 then it stops.
Oddly, she found this email list archive at Yahoo. I wonder how it got
there, who did it, and why it stops in 2001? But most importantly, it
shows that an email list archive is possible to create.
To see the incomplete archive go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sundial/messages/5297?viscount=-100
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