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**** Chris Hellas writes **** >Technical diving is in grave danger of becoming 'fashionable'. We have already had a few threads on the subject of "technical diving wanabe's". Well unfortunatley we are going to se a lot more!. > >I suppose we are back to sounding elitist, but I still think that Trimix >is not for mass market consumption. > To All I'm a techdiver mailing list "newbie" (having only subscribed for a couple of weeks and this is my first contribution) and I'm a "technical diving wanabe". I'm only a lowly recreational diver (CMAS ****) and recreational scuba instructor (CMAS ***) with over 2000 dives so I guess I really shouldn't be sticking my nose in here with you technical dive Gods, but I'm going to anyway. I have a strong interest in technical diving and have read just about everything I can find on the subject. When I got my Internet connection this was one of the first mailing lists or newsgroups that I subscribed to. I thought that it would be the ideal way to get the most up-to-date information on the subject before I went out and took a course. (Since I live in Bermuda, this will be no small undertaking. It isn't going to be cheap and it isn't going to be easy. So I'm NOT!! doing it to be "fashionable".) Well, there have been a few good letters posted but, unfortunately, the inane outnumbers the useful (to be frank, I really don't give a damn about the pros and cons of Aqua Corps' graphics). I decided to keep on, even though trying to get the few nuggets from the rest of the crap was wasting a lot of time, until now. I've gotten so sick of the "newbies" and "wanabies" comments that I've decided that it just ain't worth it! I'm sure that this mailing list could easily be made "invitation only" or you could figure out some way of checking peoples' C-cards and divelogs before you "allow" them to join your group; after all it should be easy for techies like you. Well that's about it for my first ever Internet flaming session. Like I said, this is my first contribution to the techdiver mailing list; my next contribution will be unsubscribe! YES!! Mr. Hellas you ARE sounding elitist!!! Robert Hole bobhole@ib*.bm*
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