I once produced a list of about 1200 current or former Texas cavers for the TSA to draw upon. It was imasculated by people without much vision. Ediger
Sent from the Samsung Galaxy Rugby Pro, an AT&T LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Joe Ranzau via Texascavers <[email protected]> Date: 07/31/2014 10:21 (GMT-06:00) To: Cavers Texas <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Texas Caver Ediger gives a nice talk about why the TSA really should or does encompass all people in Texas that like caves, not just the ones that pony up membership dues. Perhaps he will post it here for our review... On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Charles Goldsmith via Texascavers <[email protected]> wrote: As a comparison, the mailing list has 481 members. We do have a lot of out of state members on the mailing list. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Heather Tucek via Texascavers <[email protected]> wrote: Mark, the TSA has 180 current members. On 31 July 2014 06:23, <[email protected]> wrote: I agree with you, Marvin. On occasion, when the picking were slim for the TC, I had to resort to the same thing in order to get it published. No harm in that. Not everyone has access to these listserves (is that a word?) and, since attachments aren’t allowed, I would ping the writers for photos to go along with their offerings to further flesh out their report. “Put a little meat on their bones”, in other words. One’s gotta do what one’s gotta do when the pickings are a little slim. A report is a report. My main query yesterday was not just how the TC was doing, but how is the TSA doing, as in membership numbers and trends. Organized clubs are struggling, including many grottos and the NSS. How does the TSA look? Mark From: Texascavers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marvin Miller via Texascavers Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 10:19 PM To: Heather Tucek; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Texas Caver For the record - and I'm not mad at anyone; I think this is a good discussion - the Texas caving news appearing in the latest issue of the NSS News is in Buford Pruitt's "Underground Online" column. Buford's method - as I understand it - is trolling the chatter on various blogs, email lists, etc. across the nation and compiling the interesting bits in his column. That is how a Colorado Bend trip report, a Government Canyon trip report, and a report on the latest Deep Cave trip ended up in the NSS News. They were not sent to the News as an article to be published but were instead picked up by Buford off of this very email listserve. That's great. Cavers across the nation and the world need to see that Texas cavers go caving and do interesting things. I know that occasionally the three people who wrote those reports for Texascavers.com also compile the happenings in their respective projects in a bit more of a readable and concise fashion with pictures and maps and submit an article to the Texas Caver. That's also a great thing. If the editors of the Texas Caver want to pull things of the email list and publish it, more power to them. I'll continue to support the magazine and the TSS and news about caving in Texas wherever it appears. -- Go find out! -Heather Tuček UT Grotto, DFW Grotto TSA Secretary & Membership Chair NSS 59660 (512) 773-1348 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com [email protected] | Archives: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cavetex http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com [email protected] | Archives: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cavetex http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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