Hello, Following Peter's excellent idea:
It seems sensible to develop an international registration system which: 1) Assigns a unique identifier to each dial, with priority given to publicly accessible dials. 2) Stores identifiers and pics of each dial in some sort of web accessible searchable file. 3) Encourages owners and organizations to display the identifier and any other theft-deterrent information at the dial site, or on the dial itself if advisable. To achieve two purposes: 1) Broaden public appreciation of the dialist's art, science and craft over the years. 2) Enhance the security of dials, especially publicly accessible ones. Maybe a discussion on this list looking at purposes, feasibility, system attributes and development and maintenance would be helpful. Tom Peter Tandy wrote: > Patrick Powers has a point here, but on balance I think fernando (with a > small 'f' !) has a stronger point. If we can't ever enjoy these things, > then there really is no point in having them. <Snip> > Surely we > should be taking the war to them and showing them that there is no hiding > place, across the world, and that eventually a stolen dial WILL be traced. > Perhaps we should start to fix 'official' (that is BSS in UK, NASS in > N.America, etc) stainless-steel plates to dial pillars, walls etc stating > that the dial is fully logged and known the world over, as a deterrent.
