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Subject: re: Tech Dir/database Rick Willliams wrote: > I awoke this fine Thanksgiving morning to two additional diatribes > from my cousins across the pond concerning the technical site dir. > In various manner I was accused of everything from attempting to > steal the British birthright to the ultimate of all insults "gross and > disgusting capitalism" and told point blank to "keep my bloody > hands of their wrecks!" Hopefully you don't include me in any of the above. > Several people got extremely upset by the idea that "the fruits of > their labor" would not be available to all, while at the same time not > considering that they were demanding all rights to a project when > they would only be contributing a part. Did someone actually demand the rights to your project? Now that's what I call commercial astuteness. Certainly I have been very careful to specify "info from the net" in everything I've written. > I really don't care if you folks in the UK form a group or > contribute individually or not contribute at all This seems a curious attitude for someone trying to gather information. You don't even seem interested in convincing us that this is a worthwhile project for us to contribute to. The fact that you obviously upset a group of non-US people would suggest that your experience/judgement of our environment is rather limited. > then as we colonialists like to say "Lets Do it!" What were you saying about the War of Independence :-) BTW do you know about the book: The Darkness Beckons The History and Development of Cave Diving Martin Farr Diadem Books, 1991, 2nd ed. ISBN: 0-906371-87-2 It details the history and development of cave diving, primarily in the UK, and details many sites in Europe, Australia, Africa and America. It was first published about 1980 and contains the type of information you are suggesting for your book and it has maps of many of the cave systems. The updated version is pretty good. Alan
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