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Jeff-

Heh, heh. If you think my message was jumping on you, you have not been 
on this list long. My post was a gentle love tap with fuzzy little 
mittens. I thought I was being quite civil.

Look, I am not saying that you should not listen in on this list, what 
you should do is LURK for a year or so that you:

a) can gauge if your delicate sensibilities can handle the salty format.
b) can get a feeling of the flow of discussion and the personalities 
involved.
c) don't make a post which makes you look like a a-hole stroke.

Unfortunately you have already done (c), but that is easily remedied by 
laying low for awhile. I also recommend that you send a message of "HELP" 
to techdiver-request@terra.net and learn how to do an archive search. 
Then enter the word "stroke" or "George" as your search criteria and you 
will find several dozen valuable messages to help you make equipment 
decisions. I repeat, this is not a forum for people trying to be a 
horgarth goober diver, but it is a forum for those who want to or are 
doing decompression diving.

I am no dive god, thats for sure. I could not carry the jock-strap of the 
majority of the folks on this list. I am simply an atlantic diver who has 
burnt out on the shallower wrecks around here and needed to get the 
knowledge and equipment to see different wrecks, which happen to be in 
deeper water.

Be happy, don't worry.

   Jim

>Alright, I tried to be civilized and expected some flak, but where do you 
>draw the line for the "target audience of the techdiver mailing list" 
>anyway?  Is this a super-elite list for those who have laid or seen the 
>end of the line in one of Wakulla or Leon's tunnels?  Is it only for the
>trimix divers?  I would never have *heard* of backplates/wings on the 
>"neophyte" rec.scuba forum, so where am I supposed to go for information?
>My peter-puffing fudge-packing PADI instructor?  I don't think so.  I am 
>not contemplating cave diving, nor wreck penetration, else I *would* have
>the proper configuration.  That was *not* the point of my question.  I've
>read rec.scuba and SCUBA-L listserv for years but I've grown up.  I don't
>claim to "belong" here as far as dishing out advice to techdivers, but I
>do wish to listen and learn, not be jumped on for asking a question, or 
>questioning an answer.  I never claimed to know jack shit on this list 
>because I probably don't; but it's not like I asked "which side of the  
>mask does the snorkle go on?" either.  Give me a break.  I should at least
>qualify as a "pledge" to this fraternity.  Is your reponse part of the 
>hazing ritual?
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