Absolutely!
Kara, you are clearly feeling a lot better! Glad to see it!
I agree that this splitting of the list is silly and divisive and doomed to failure,
but in the meantime, I don't want to miss any of the juicy bits!
In case any of you Tejanos haven't noticed (I started to say 'have your
heads so far up, you can't see' but that wouldn't be PC...), you have THE
largest, busiest, most vibrant and entertaining caver mail-list in the country.
You know it's good if the internationally renowned Sr. Sleaze Weasel has
joined up and become a regular contributor. (And what, pray tell, could be
more OT than *that*??)
I very much look forward to my daily dose, I mean digest, of Texas tripe, all
the way up here in VA. I'm a member of every caver list I know of, and
texascavers is my fave. Why? Because it's always so full of irreverent
humor, witticisms, strange factoids, and tall tales from the likes of Gil 'Oztotl'
Ediger, Sleaze, and the DirtDoc, not to mention SpeleoSteele, WaV, and
others, and certainly to mention the inimitable David Locklear.
Sure, all the lists have a Rule Numero Uno that says all posts have to be
caving related. Some of them actually enforce that. The VAR list has ONLY
posts directly related to caving, and I get one, maybe two digests a week,
each with one message in them. Bo-ring! TAG-Net is always extolling the
virtues of it's 5,000-word trip reports, which put me straight to sleep. Bo-
ring!! And they have actually excommunicating cavers for not playing by the
rules! I love TAG, and I love Texas, but I don't cave there very often, so
mostly I scroll past the cave talk, looking for the interesting stuff. I think
Rule Numero Uno was misprinted -- it meant to say '"caver-related"... After
all, cavers are all one big happy family, and we all care about each other,
and what each other are doing and thinking. All that stuff should be fair
game on the list, so long as everybody uses a modicum of common sense
and tact.
Oh well, I guess we're now off to see who has more fun, the list with the
latest trip to Airmans, or the list with tales by Sleaze and Gil and Locklear,
and other interesting stuff thought of/up/about BY cavers, and therefore
inherently cave(r) related.
Alex
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Alex Sproul, NSS 8086
NSS IT Committee
