Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I agree! David! Don't shut up :-) Barb Please note: message attached From: "John Greer" To: Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:12:06 -0600 Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e9cc6a0d20f0b75942st05vuc--- Begin Message --- I don't have time to read most posts, and I certainly don't have time (days or weeks) to comb through the web trying to find everything that I want to know about, however peripherally. That's why God invented David and several other people who seem to spend their lives looking for things that the rest of us can access. For instance, there is a Spanish caver that posts about 200 things a week on cave archeology and deep cave discoveries. Without him (and David) I certainly wouldn't have a clue what's going on in the world. I can't tell David what to do with his life, especially in the face of constant and extreme criticism, or what the rest of this list wants to allow to be posted, but I certainly vote for vociferousness (that's a word!) over silence and ignorance. And that pertains to potential cave lights as well as just caving news in general. John - Original Message - From: Nancy Weaver To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com --- End Message --- - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I agree! David! Don't shut up :-) Barb Please note: message attached From: "John Greer" To: Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:12:06 -0600 Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e9cc6a0d20f0b75942st05vuc--- Begin Message --- I don't have time to read most posts, and I certainly don't have time (days or weeks) to comb through the web trying to find everything that I want to know about, however peripherally. That's why God invented David and several other people who seem to spend their lives looking for things that the rest of us can access. For instance, there is a Spanish caver that posts about 200 things a week on cave archeology and deep cave discoveries. Without him (and David) I certainly wouldn't have a clue what's going on in the world. I can't tell David what to do with his life, especially in the face of constant and extreme criticism, or what the rest of this list wants to allow to be posted, but I certainly vote for vociferousness (that's a word!) over silence and ignorance. And that pertains to potential cave lights as well as just caving news in general. John - Original Message - From: Nancy Weaver To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com --- End Message --- - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I agree! David! Don't shut up :-) Barb Please note: message attached From: "John Greer" To: Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:12:06 -0600 Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e9cc6a0d20f0b75942st05vuc--- Begin Message --- I don't have time to read most posts, and I certainly don't have time (days or weeks) to comb through the web trying to find everything that I want to know about, however peripherally. That's why God invented David and several other people who seem to spend their lives looking for things that the rest of us can access. For instance, there is a Spanish caver that posts about 200 things a week on cave archeology and deep cave discoveries. Without him (and David) I certainly wouldn't have a clue what's going on in the world. I can't tell David what to do with his life, especially in the face of constant and extreme criticism, or what the rest of this list wants to allow to be posted, but I certainly vote for vociferousness (that's a word!) over silence and ignorance. And that pertains to potential cave lights as well as just caving news in general. John - Original Message - From: Nancy Weaver To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com --- End Message --- - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I don't have time to read most posts, and I certainly don't have time (days or weeks) to comb through the web trying to find everything that I want to know about, however peripherally. That's why God invented David and several other people who seem to spend their lives looking for things that the rest of us can access. For instance, there is a Spanish caver that posts about 200 things a week on cave archeology and deep cave discoveries. Without him (and David) I certainly wouldn't have a clue what's going on in the world. I can't tell David what to do with his life, especially in the face of constant and extreme criticism, or what the rest of this list wants to allow to be posted, but I certainly vote for vociferousness (that's a word!) over silence and ignorance. And that pertains to potential cave lights as well as just caving news in general. John - Original Message - From: Nancy Weaver To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I don't have time to read most posts, and I certainly don't have time (days or weeks) to comb through the web trying to find everything that I want to know about, however peripherally. That's why God invented David and several other people who seem to spend their lives looking for things that the rest of us can access. For instance, there is a Spanish caver that posts about 200 things a week on cave archeology and deep cave discoveries. Without him (and David) I certainly wouldn't have a clue what's going on in the world. I can't tell David what to do with his life, especially in the face of constant and extreme criticism, or what the rest of this list wants to allow to be posted, but I certainly vote for vociferousness (that's a word!) over silence and ignorance. And that pertains to potential cave lights as well as just caving news in general. John - Original Message - From: Nancy Weaver To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I don't have time to read most posts, and I certainly don't have time (days or weeks) to comb through the web trying to find everything that I want to know about, however peripherally. That's why God invented David and several other people who seem to spend their lives looking for things that the rest of us can access. For instance, there is a Spanish caver that posts about 200 things a week on cave archeology and deep cave discoveries. Without him (and David) I certainly wouldn't have a clue what's going on in the world. I can't tell David what to do with his life, especially in the face of constant and extreme criticism, or what the rest of this list wants to allow to be posted, but I certainly vote for vociferousness (that's a word!) over silence and ignorance. And that pertains to potential cave lights as well as just caving news in general. John - Original Message - From: Nancy Weaver To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
David - I for one appreciate your posts and encourage you to continue. I realize its difficult not to take criticism personally, however my observation is that those critical people generally have nothing of value to say and so often ignore their own rules about whats OK for cavetex that it provides my daily laugh. heres another vote for your interesting posts Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I see you are letting the wants/needs of the one outweigh the wants/needs of the many. I love democracy! On 10/17/2011 8:24 AM, David wrote: I often scour the web looking for the latest newsworthy items related to caving and try to post them to CaveTex the second that they become available.I have been doing that for several years, off and on, but especially during times when work is slow. In an effort to compromise with those of you who find my post irrelevant or even detestable, I am going to make a minor change to this effort: I will not report anything that is on the "major" news networks, or Caving News ( Facebook ) or on the NSS forums, or Onlinecavers.com, or on various Texas grotto webpages or their Facebook pages.If you really want to keep abreast of the latest news, you will just have to go search for it yourself. If a story ( like the current one in the news which hasn't been posted yet ), falls on the border-line of that rule, I will wait 24 hours before posting it, to give another caver a chance to get the warm fuzzy feeling from hitting the Send button, and enjoy the feedback they get from the positive cavers and also the backlash from the negative cavers, and the ridicule/humiliation from the TSP. I will try my best to resist the urge to criticize other's post ( probably going to epic failure at that one ). There is so much to talk about related to caving that is new.The internet is saturated with new videos, and new LED lights, and new things that help the environment ( which may help caves directly or indirectly ), and I feel people are either too scared to post something new, or they are too busy, or some other reason that they don't post something interesting to read.I like to be enlightened. I am testing a new LED light I bought last week, but I am not going to tell you anything about it.You will either have to ask, or go to my sites I have mentioned before.I will not report anything from the major LED light forums, unless it is revolutionary. If you wish to watch the latest caving videos on YouTube, just go to YouTube, and type "cave and the month, year" in the search box, and you will find new videos. To find the foreign videos, which are often amazing, you will have to be more persistent. I will try my best to only mention new videos that are noteworthy. I have said this several times before, but I try to make an effort to write something that is new or interesting when I post something. I feel CaveTex needs more interesting post. The recent wave of post last week made my Blackberry beep dozens of times, and some of the post could have been handled differently, or I just need to figure out how to make it not beep when a CaveTex post arrives. You can set Google News to search for words like:caving, cave, speleo, stalagmite, bats, cave-diving, etc, and it will notify you of new news stories. So I will not post anything I find on Google News, unless it is something that is noteworthy. I hope that CaveTex improves and continues to provide new information to cavers. I feel that if you went back and took a look at the thousands of CaveTex postings over the years, that some creative person could probably single out 10 of being worth re-printing or organizing into some readable article to put on the web somewhere.A majority of the old post would be obsolete for that purpose or not relevant anymore.That person could probably be "nominated" for a speleo-historian award. David Locklear caver in Fort Bend County - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I see you are letting the wants/needs of the one outweigh the wants/needs of the many. I love democracy! On 10/17/2011 8:24 AM, David wrote: I often scour the web looking for the latest newsworthy items related to caving and try to post them to CaveTex the second that they become available.I have been doing that for several years, off and on, but especially during times when work is slow. In an effort to compromise with those of you who find my post irrelevant or even detestable, I am going to make a minor change to this effort: I will not report anything that is on the "major" news networks, or Caving News ( Facebook ) or on the NSS forums, or Onlinecavers.com, or on various Texas grotto webpages or their Facebook pages.If you really want to keep abreast of the latest news, you will just have to go search for it yourself. If a story ( like the current one in the news which hasn't been posted yet ), falls on the border-line of that rule, I will wait 24 hours before posting it, to give another caver a chance to get the warm fuzzy feeling from hitting the Send button, and enjoy the feedback they get from the positive cavers and also the backlash from the negative cavers, and the ridicule/humiliation from the TSP. I will try my best to resist the urge to criticize other's post ( probably going to epic failure at that one ). There is so much to talk about related to caving that is new.The internet is saturated with new videos, and new LED lights, and new things that help the environment ( which may help caves directly or indirectly ), and I feel people are either too scared to post something new, or they are too busy, or some other reason that they don't post something interesting to read.I like to be enlightened. I am testing a new LED light I bought last week, but I am not going to tell you anything about it.You will either have to ask, or go to my sites I have mentioned before.I will not report anything from the major LED light forums, unless it is revolutionary. If you wish to watch the latest caving videos on YouTube, just go to YouTube, and type "cave and the month, year" in the search box, and you will find new videos. To find the foreign videos, which are often amazing, you will have to be more persistent. I will try my best to only mention new videos that are noteworthy. I have said this several times before, but I try to make an effort to write something that is new or interesting when I post something. I feel CaveTex needs more interesting post. The recent wave of post last week made my Blackberry beep dozens of times, and some of the post could have been handled differently, or I just need to figure out how to make it not beep when a CaveTex post arrives. You can set Google News to search for words like:caving, cave, speleo, stalagmite, bats, cave-diving, etc, and it will notify you of new news stories. So I will not post anything I find on Google News, unless it is something that is noteworthy. I hope that CaveTex improves and continues to provide new information to cavers. I feel that if you went back and took a look at the thousands of CaveTex postings over the years, that some creative person could probably single out 10 of being worth re-printing or organizing into some readable article to put on the web somewhere.A majority of the old post would be obsolete for that purpose or not relevant anymore.That person could probably be "nominated" for a speleo-historian award. David Locklear caver in Fort Bend County - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] news related / personal
I see you are letting the wants/needs of the one outweigh the wants/needs of the many. I love democracy! On 10/17/2011 8:24 AM, David wrote: I often scour the web looking for the latest newsworthy items related to caving and try to post them to CaveTex the second that they become available.I have been doing that for several years, off and on, but especially during times when work is slow. In an effort to compromise with those of you who find my post irrelevant or even detestable, I am going to make a minor change to this effort: I will not report anything that is on the "major" news networks, or Caving News ( Facebook ) or on the NSS forums, or Onlinecavers.com, or on various Texas grotto webpages or their Facebook pages.If you really want to keep abreast of the latest news, you will just have to go search for it yourself. If a story ( like the current one in the news which hasn't been posted yet ), falls on the border-line of that rule, I will wait 24 hours before posting it, to give another caver a chance to get the warm fuzzy feeling from hitting the Send button, and enjoy the feedback they get from the positive cavers and also the backlash from the negative cavers, and the ridicule/humiliation from the TSP. I will try my best to resist the urge to criticize other's post ( probably going to epic failure at that one ). There is so much to talk about related to caving that is new.The internet is saturated with new videos, and new LED lights, and new things that help the environment ( which may help caves directly or indirectly ), and I feel people are either too scared to post something new, or they are too busy, or some other reason that they don't post something interesting to read.I like to be enlightened. I am testing a new LED light I bought last week, but I am not going to tell you anything about it.You will either have to ask, or go to my sites I have mentioned before.I will not report anything from the major LED light forums, unless it is revolutionary. If you wish to watch the latest caving videos on YouTube, just go to YouTube, and type "cave and the month, year" in the search box, and you will find new videos. To find the foreign videos, which are often amazing, you will have to be more persistent. I will try my best to only mention new videos that are noteworthy. I have said this several times before, but I try to make an effort to write something that is new or interesting when I post something. I feel CaveTex needs more interesting post. The recent wave of post last week made my Blackberry beep dozens of times, and some of the post could have been handled differently, or I just need to figure out how to make it not beep when a CaveTex post arrives. You can set Google News to search for words like:caving, cave, speleo, stalagmite, bats, cave-diving, etc, and it will notify you of new news stories. So I will not post anything I find on Google News, unless it is something that is noteworthy. I hope that CaveTex improves and continues to provide new information to cavers. I feel that if you went back and took a look at the thousands of CaveTex postings over the years, that some creative person could probably single out 10 of being worth re-printing or organizing into some readable article to put on the web somewhere.A majority of the old post would be obsolete for that purpose or not relevant anymore.That person could probably be "nominated" for a speleo-historian award. David Locklear caver in Fort Bend County - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] news related / personal
I often scour the web looking for the latest newsworthy items related to caving and try to post them to CaveTex the second that they become available.I have been doing that for several years, off and on, but especially during times when work is slow. In an effort to compromise with those of you who find my post irrelevant or even detestable, I am going to make a minor change to this effort: I will not report anything that is on the "major" news networks, or Caving News ( Facebook ) or on the NSS forums, or Onlinecavers.com, or on various Texas grotto webpages or their Facebook pages.If you really want to keep abreast of the latest news, you will just have to go search for it yourself. If a story ( like the current one in the news which hasn't been posted yet ), falls on the border-line of that rule, I will wait 24 hours before posting it, to give another caver a chance to get the warm fuzzy feeling from hitting the Send button, and enjoy the feedback they get from the positive cavers and also the backlash from the negative cavers, and the ridicule/humiliation from the TSP. I will try my best to resist the urge to criticize other's post ( probably going to epic failure at that one ). There is so much to talk about related to caving that is new.The internet is saturated with new videos, and new LED lights, and new things that help the environment ( which may help caves directly or indirectly ), and I feel people are either too scared to post something new, or they are too busy, or some other reason that they don't post something interesting to read.I like to be enlightened. I am testing a new LED light I bought last week, but I am not going to tell you anything about it.You will either have to ask, or go to my sites I have mentioned before.I will not report anything from the major LED light forums, unless it is revolutionary. If you wish to watch the latest caving videos on YouTube, just go to YouTube, and type "cave and the month, year" in the search box, and you will find new videos. To find the foreign videos, which are often amazing, you will have to be more persistent. I will try my best to only mention new videos that are noteworthy. I have said this several times before, but I try to make an effort to write something that is new or interesting when I post something. I feel CaveTex needs more interesting post. The recent wave of post last week made my Blackberry beep dozens of times, and some of the post could have been handled differently, or I just need to figure out how to make it not beep when a CaveTex post arrives. You can set Google News to search for words like:caving, cave, speleo, stalagmite, bats, cave-diving, etc, and it will notify you of new news stories. So I will not post anything I find on Google News, unless it is something that is noteworthy. I hope that CaveTex improves and continues to provide new information to cavers. I feel that if you went back and took a look at the thousands of CaveTex postings over the years, that some creative person could probably single out 10 of being worth re-printing or organizing into some readable article to put on the web somewhere.A majority of the old post would be obsolete for that purpose or not relevant anymore.That person could probably be "nominated" for a speleo-historian award. David Locklear caver in Fort Bend County - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] news related / personal
I often scour the web looking for the latest newsworthy items related to caving and try to post them to CaveTex the second that they become available.I have been doing that for several years, off and on, but especially during times when work is slow. In an effort to compromise with those of you who find my post irrelevant or even detestable, I am going to make a minor change to this effort: I will not report anything that is on the "major" news networks, or Caving News ( Facebook ) or on the NSS forums, or Onlinecavers.com, or on various Texas grotto webpages or their Facebook pages.If you really want to keep abreast of the latest news, you will just have to go search for it yourself. If a story ( like the current one in the news which hasn't been posted yet ), falls on the border-line of that rule, I will wait 24 hours before posting it, to give another caver a chance to get the warm fuzzy feeling from hitting the Send button, and enjoy the feedback they get from the positive cavers and also the backlash from the negative cavers, and the ridicule/humiliation from the TSP. I will try my best to resist the urge to criticize other's post ( probably going to epic failure at that one ). There is so much to talk about related to caving that is new.The internet is saturated with new videos, and new LED lights, and new things that help the environment ( which may help caves directly or indirectly ), and I feel people are either too scared to post something new, or they are too busy, or some other reason that they don't post something interesting to read.I like to be enlightened. I am testing a new LED light I bought last week, but I am not going to tell you anything about it.You will either have to ask, or go to my sites I have mentioned before.I will not report anything from the major LED light forums, unless it is revolutionary. If you wish to watch the latest caving videos on YouTube, just go to YouTube, and type "cave and the month, year" in the search box, and you will find new videos. To find the foreign videos, which are often amazing, you will have to be more persistent. I will try my best to only mention new videos that are noteworthy. I have said this several times before, but I try to make an effort to write something that is new or interesting when I post something. I feel CaveTex needs more interesting post. The recent wave of post last week made my Blackberry beep dozens of times, and some of the post could have been handled differently, or I just need to figure out how to make it not beep when a CaveTex post arrives. You can set Google News to search for words like:caving, cave, speleo, stalagmite, bats, cave-diving, etc, and it will notify you of new news stories. So I will not post anything I find on Google News, unless it is something that is noteworthy. I hope that CaveTex improves and continues to provide new information to cavers. I feel that if you went back and took a look at the thousands of CaveTex postings over the years, that some creative person could probably single out 10 of being worth re-printing or organizing into some readable article to put on the web somewhere.A majority of the old post would be obsolete for that purpose or not relevant anymore.That person could probably be "nominated" for a speleo-historian award. David Locklear caver in Fort Bend County - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] news related / personal
I often scour the web looking for the latest newsworthy items related to caving and try to post them to CaveTex the second that they become available.I have been doing that for several years, off and on, but especially during times when work is slow. In an effort to compromise with those of you who find my post irrelevant or even detestable, I am going to make a minor change to this effort: I will not report anything that is on the "major" news networks, or Caving News ( Facebook ) or on the NSS forums, or Onlinecavers.com, or on various Texas grotto webpages or their Facebook pages.If you really want to keep abreast of the latest news, you will just have to go search for it yourself. If a story ( like the current one in the news which hasn't been posted yet ), falls on the border-line of that rule, I will wait 24 hours before posting it, to give another caver a chance to get the warm fuzzy feeling from hitting the Send button, and enjoy the feedback they get from the positive cavers and also the backlash from the negative cavers, and the ridicule/humiliation from the TSP. I will try my best to resist the urge to criticize other's post ( probably going to epic failure at that one ). There is so much to talk about related to caving that is new.The internet is saturated with new videos, and new LED lights, and new things that help the environment ( which may help caves directly or indirectly ), and I feel people are either too scared to post something new, or they are too busy, or some other reason that they don't post something interesting to read.I like to be enlightened. I am testing a new LED light I bought last week, but I am not going to tell you anything about it.You will either have to ask, or go to my sites I have mentioned before.I will not report anything from the major LED light forums, unless it is revolutionary. If you wish to watch the latest caving videos on YouTube, just go to YouTube, and type "cave and the month, year" in the search box, and you will find new videos. To find the foreign videos, which are often amazing, you will have to be more persistent. I will try my best to only mention new videos that are noteworthy. I have said this several times before, but I try to make an effort to write something that is new or interesting when I post something. I feel CaveTex needs more interesting post. The recent wave of post last week made my Blackberry beep dozens of times, and some of the post could have been handled differently, or I just need to figure out how to make it not beep when a CaveTex post arrives. You can set Google News to search for words like:caving, cave, speleo, stalagmite, bats, cave-diving, etc, and it will notify you of new news stories. So I will not post anything I find on Google News, unless it is something that is noteworthy. I hope that CaveTex improves and continues to provide new information to cavers. I feel that if you went back and took a look at the thousands of CaveTex postings over the years, that some creative person could probably single out 10 of being worth re-printing or organizing into some readable article to put on the web somewhere.A majority of the old post would be obsolete for that purpose or not relevant anymore.That person could probably be "nominated" for a speleo-historian award. David Locklear caver in Fort Bend County - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
