Re: A Partial List Archive

[John Carmichael]

Hello Joe: And it's a pleasure hearing from you! I remembered your email to the list long ago and the gist of its contents, but I didn't remember your name.  I'm not a webmaster, so unfortunately I can't help out in making an on line Sundial Email List Archive.  I suggested it, hoping one of the people on the list would consider it to be a worthy project would know how to do it.  Gianni Ferrari in Italy wrote me and said that he has and could copy all the old emails since 1991 and put them on a CD as individual files.  I would imagine that they could then be put on a website and be updated manually occasionally.  But an email Archive that updates itself automatically and one that has a search engine for subject threads would be even better. I wonder if there is such a thing? I still can't reach Daniel Roth so I can't ask him about why I can't get emails from the list. My spam filter is turned off and even that didn't help. Thanks for your comments about my stone sundial at Flandrau.  It's nice to know it's still there and hasn't been vandalized!  Just to correct an observation that you made: It is technically a horizontal dial with hourly analemmas and  is not an analemmatic sundial (even though you see analemmas on the face.)  I'm sure you have seen the true analemmatic sundial at Flandrau that is located  above my sundial, painted on the pavement in front of the entrance doors. If you are in town on Sunday, October 9, we will be installing the Sundial Cupola on the roof at 10:00am.  We're having a "Cupola Sundial Installation Party".  (We need all the help we can get to lift the heavy pieces up onto the roof!).  Stop by if you'd like to see it. thanks for writing, John John L. Carmichael Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson AZ 85718-4716 USA Tel: 520-6961709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Websites: Sundial Sculptures: http://www.sundialsculptures.com Stained Glass Sundials: http://www.stainedglasssundials.com Sundial Cupolas, Towers and Turrets: http://StainedGlassSundials.com/CupolaSundial/index.html Joe Montani wrote: Hi, John, 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 [snip] -- -