David,
If anyone is not listeneing, it is you! Plenty of young
people use list serves, just like plenty of older people use
Facebook. They are not mutually exclusive. Of course the average
age of Texascavers posters is getting older. The average age of
cavers in general, indeed the entire U. S. population, is getting
older. So what? It's not that older people will not adopt new
technology. Most of us "older" cavers were around way before list
serves, and we had no trouble adopting them. Same with cell
phones. Facebook just has too many disadvantages for many of
us. Give it a rest!
Mark Minton
At 02:20 PM 5/24/2011, David wrote:
As I said, it was just an experiment. The site Jim mentioned was
immediately deleted less than 15 minutes after it was created. I was
only trying to show
a few cavers what it was I was experimenting with.
What I am getting at and that nobody is listening, is that young
potential cavers ( in general ) will not use listserves. They don't
want to be bombarded with
e-mails about WNS, Cave geology, gating caves, or any of the other
so-called real caving stuff.
The age of the average CaveTex user is getting older and older, and it
will die, whether or not I am posting anything.
The majority of cavers in Texas ( around 1,000 ) don't want to have
anything to do with CaveTex.
I did not ruin CaveTex. Lots of other cavers have posted things
that 99 % of us did not want to receive.
I emphasize that Facebook is just a fad, like the pet rock. But it
has potential for the time-being to educate potential cavers.
David Locklear
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