texascavers Digest 23 Dec 2009 17:55:16 - Issue 932
Topics (messages 13145 through 13158):
Mapping the underground
13145 by: William H. Russell
portable ladders
13146 by: David
13149 by: Fritz Holt
13150 by: Allan Cobb
Re: san antonio light article
Request forwarded by Mixon. I have no idea what the CFC is. Note the
disguised e-mail address at the end for replies.
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The NSS needs your help!
Once again we must file the annual CFC application in order to be
considered to be a participant in the 2010/2011
I have no idea what the CFC is.
The Combined Federal Campaign is the gov't equivalent of the United Way, for all federal
employees -- not a small consituency, and as Scott says, potentially worth significant bucks.
Most managers exert signficant pressure on their employees to make a
I'll admit, there is considerable pressure to donate to the United Way where
I work.
There is an assumed $2 donation monthly. Your name is on a lit. If you
don't give, the admin assistant will nag you relentlessly.
I don't mind giving, but the tactics used . lot left to be desired.
I donated
Cavers,
The Texas Cave Management Association has paid off Punkin/Deep but we still
have ongoing maintenance and capital improvement expenses there and at our
other properties. I know many of you like to join at the beginning of the
year so please go to
- Forwarded Message
From: Scott Fee scott...@bellsouth.net
To: b...@caves.org
Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 5:14:11 PM
Subject: NSS needs your help - Did you participate in any clean up/restoration
work?
Please send to your local
grotto, regions, and other list you belong to.
Agreed Don, modern smart phones are not just phones anymore, they are
amongst the smallest netbooks made. My Iphone is much faster than my
first computer and has Gigs of storage, my first used tape drives.
In a pinch, I can vpn into my office with my iphone, remote a windows
or unix workstation,
Charles -- A caver (sort of) in the Houston Grotto hosts the AMCS web
site on his server. I've e-mailed Denver Hopkins about the problem and
he's looking into it, but haven't heard back for several days, so I
don't think he's looking very hard. Could be on vacation.
Another responder says
No, it really seems like a DNS issue, amcs-pubs.org responds to a dns
query, www.amcs-pubs.org does not.
I'm about to announce an offer of free hosting to any Texas Cave
related organization that needs it. It will be limited to hosting
only, I won't manage or build webpages for groups :) I'm
