For the record - and I'm not mad at anyone; I think this is a good discussion - the Texas caving news appearing in the latest issue of the NSS News is in Buford Pruitt's "Underground Online" column. Buford's method - as I understand it - is trolling the chatter on various blogs, email lists, etc. across the nation and compiling the interesting bits in his column. That is how a Colorado Bend trip report, a Government Canyon trip report, and a report on the latest Deep Cave trip ended up in the NSS News. They were not sent to the News as an article to be published but were instead picked up by Buford off of this very email listserve. That's great. Cavers across the nation and the world need to see that Texas cavers go caving and do interesting things.
I know that occasionally the three people who wrote those reports for Texascavers.com also compile the happenings in their respective projects in a bit more of a readable and concise fashion with pictures and maps and submit an article to the Texas Caver. That's also a great thing. If the editors of the Texas Caver want to pull things of the email list and publish it, more power to them. I'll continue to support the magazine and the TSS and news about caving in Texas wherever it appears. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Heather Tucek via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > As per request from a caver unnamed, I'm posting this here too. You know, > just in case I haven't already royally pissed you off yet. But you know > what? Worth it. > > > > The Texas Caver has just been sent off to the printer. This is the May > issue of the Texas Caver. Why is it almost August and the May issue is only > finally being printed? Why, it's because no Texas Cavers actually send in > trip reports to be published! We can't make a newsletter/magazine if > there's nothing to put in it. > > I know LOTS of you have gone on a number of Texas caving trips in the past > couple of months. I know LOTS of you went on plenty of AMAZING TAG trips > this month. Why is no one sending in articles? Jill spends an exorbitant > amount of her personal volunteer time making the layout, editing, adding > photos, etc. All the things needed to make the Texas Caver a great > publication. We won one award at the Publication Salon at the NSS > Convention. ONE. How many did other organizations win? You know why? > Because they actually have stuff to publish!!!! > > There's an article about Texas Caving in the most recent NSS News. Why? > Why isn't that article in the Texas Caver? Just because it goes in the > national magazine doesn't mean it can't also go in the local magazine. If > you're going to put one together for NSS, go ahead and copy Jill on your > email! (I've seen this a number of times, not just this month). > > Bottom line is, if you want to see your Texas Caver magazine in the mail > anymore, you need to man up, be a part of the answer instead of the > problem, and start sending in your trip reports and photos. If you don't > want to publish something because you think you can't write, have someone > copyedit it for you first. I'll be happy to go through and fix spelling and > grammatical errors, as long as you SEND SOMETHING IN!! > > > > > TL;DR > Start sending articles and photos to the Texas Caver or I will camp on > your front doorstep until you write something down. I know who you are. > > /end rant > > > -- > *Go find out!* > -Heather Tuček > UT Grotto, DFW Grotto > TSA Secretary & Membership Chair > NSS 59660 > (512) 773-1348 > trog...@cavechat.org > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cavetex > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > >
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