Thanks Bill.  I happen to own cavetex.net now, whoever had scarfed it
up tried to sell it to me, I was patient and when they gave up and
dropped it, I picked it up.  It now forwards to texascavers.

Sorry I didn't call you, was middle of the day when I got the message
and figured you were at work.

If you still need to talk, let me know a time and I'll call you.

I'm looking forward to the cave dig, never been on one :)

Thanks
Charles

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Bill Bentley<[email protected]> wrote:
> Charles,
>       This is the guy or son of the guy who refused to acknowledge an email
> from Network Solutions or lift a finger to help let me pick up the domain
> www.cavetex.net when it all went away with no notice, warning or anything on
> September 19, 2005. I think it eventually was scarfed up by robot software
> to the Chinese or Korean folks to be resold at a nice profit...
> So my feelings is that yes they may have started it and did a good job at
> it, but when they were done so to speak, they didn't pass the torch... When
> you took over from me, I cooperated and helped make it a smooth seamless
> process and made a friend in doing so... I hear you are going to dig with us
> at 5 Mouth Cave... Great... I am looking forward to it...
>
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: JS White
> To: Stefan Creaser
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Rethinking the delete button
>
> I’ve read this thread with interest, consternation, and amusement all
> bundled up together.  Back when this mailing list was “CaveTex,” I spent a
> year (and then some) as its administrator and moderator. I inherited the job
> from my dad, who just got plain tired of trying to keep up with Luddites and
> flamers and headaches from the list’s various hosting services.
>
> Here’s what I think, for what it’s worth. The “me-toos” and one-liners are
> indeed a nice campfire, sociable kind of response. You guys exist in a rare
> community. I’ve seen the old-timers take care of each other in ways that
> just don’t happen in conventional communities and families, and I feel
> blessed—albeit in a very non-religious, non-denominational way. You rely on
> each other for amusement, and you work together and learn together. I work
> closely with another Caver-offspring in a 40-hour/week bureaucratic
> environment. We marvel regularly at what a great thing it was to be raised
> by our crazy parents and their friends. In most cases, you know you can
> count on each other to care about important things in the same ways—family,
> friends, the land, the caves, the knowledge…your own lives.
>
> Use the Delete key as you see fit and keep your impatience to yourselves. If
> you really want to be business-minded, be cautious with your subject-lines.
> Use important first words:  Trip Report, Work Weekend, Action Required,
> whatever. But don’t disparage each other for brevity or lack of brilliance.
> Gil Edigar can write an essay that would make any of us weep. Ted Samsel can
> make me laugh so hard I fear I will pee myself from a single line. But every
> non-stellar rejoinder or mundane reply meant something to the person on the
> other end who hit “send.” Respect that and appreciate it.
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Stefan Creaser <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Have you considered printing double sided?
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve left the history so you can check if this works…
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Simon Newton [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:29 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] delete button
>>
>>
>>
>> I have my secretary print all my emails to paper, so I'd prefer 1 page
>> text minimum (Times New Roman, 10 pt font).
>>
>> Also, if you could remove the history chain at the bottom this would save
>> a lot of paper.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your compliance on this matter,
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Fofo <[email protected]>
>> To: texascavers <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:31:40 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] delete button
>> Hi!
>>
>> I use Mozilla's Thunderbird both in the office and my laptop. I know, it's
>> a throwback, now that everything is online, but you can set it up to pretty
>> much do whatever you want: leave messages on server, delete messages from
>> server, delete only the ones that you delete, have messages delivered
>> directly to specific folders, group messages by thread, etc. It has a pretty
>> decent junk mail filter, and setting it up is easy.
>>
>> Even in slow connections, usually I don't even notice when messages are
>> downloaded (unless it's the first time of the day and there are several big
>> files to download, and for really bad connections you can put a limit on the
>> size of files to download). I always have the preview panel on, and it
>> literally often takes less than one second to read a message (especially
>> short replies), delete them and move on to the next one.
>>
>> OK, 162 words. Clear to go!
>>
>>
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