NavList: A Discussion Group Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Position-Finding

VIEW CURRENT DISCUSSIONS: www.fer3.com/arc

To join the discussion mailing list, send an email to NavList-subscribe@googlegroups.com. To leave the list, send an email to NavList-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. Note that the subject and body of the email for subscribe and unsubscribe requests may be left blank. Requests will be followed by an automated confirmation request that will ask you to visit a rather long URL at google. Visit that URL and you're in. You can also drop me an email and I can subscribe or unsubscribe you by hand (Frank Reed). Note that you do not need to sign up for a google "gmail" account to become a member of this discussion group.

NavList and other google groups can be accessed via email, like any traditional "listserv" email list, or it may be accessed via a newsreader-style web interface on google's web site here:
http://groups.google.com/group/NavList

In addition to the google web site for NavList, you may view current and historic messages dating as far back as 1997 at the NavList web archive:
http://www.fer3.com/arc
This web site is updated in near real-time. Messages exchanged in the NavList discussion group appear here within one or two minutes. This is the recommended archive and web interface for the group.

The general topic of this discussion list is: "Celestial Navigation, Traditional Marine Navigation, History of Navigation, GPS as it affects Traditional Navigation, Terrestrial Mapping and Exploration, Determination of Latitude and Longitude, and Positional Astronomy." Please use normal etiquette in deciding whether side-discussions are off-topic. If another NavList member complains that a discussion is off-topic, please consider taking it to private email. In general, any topic even remotely related to the primary topic will be welcomed by most members.

If you join the discussion by email, be advised that NavList permits message attachments, as long as they are relatively small. Please exercise reasonable etiquette when using attachments. They should be relevant, and they should be smaller than 250k when possible. Executable attachments are automatically dropped from messages at the source, since they are the usual means for spreading viruses. Note that there is no virus risk from image files like JPEGs and GIFs. These are the most common attachment types.

-Frank Reed, NavList manager