----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:38
PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Update on Busby
Books: Sold Out!
Teammates,
After filling the orders I received
today, the 200 "lost Busbys" will all be gone...distributed to Psubbers in 18
countries and 26 states. I will ask Jon and Ray to take down the Busby
offer on the website. I will not be taking any new orders...I have no
more books left.
For those of you who have placed orders over 30 days
ago and have still not received your book, please e-mail me directly at
SeaLordOne@aol.com. I have a book left for you. For those who have
placed orders in the last 30 days, please be patient. I have enough left
for all those who have already placed an order, but no more. If I end up
with an extra copy or two when the dust all settles, I will offer them
up. Otherwise, the well is dry.
I also have a couple of extra
books pre-positioned overseas. I ask those of you with this extra copy
to contact me. Thank you.
I am now out of the Busby Book
business. It has been an honor to have my name associated, in even this
indirect way, with such a magnificant volume. I will now rely on those
few of you who indicated you would either (1) put Busby on a website, or (2)
make CD's of the book available, to take over from me and keep this
information available to the community. This book is in the public
domain...there is no copyright. You can even sell the CD's for a profit
if you want to..it is perfectly legal. Psubs could make a buck or two
that way. The books I distributed were covered by an exclusive deal I
had with the Navy, but your CD's (or even photocopies) would be totally public
domain.
I am now going to look for some other way to support the Psubs
community. I am not sure what I will do just yet. Any good deeds
you can suggest?
I have toyed with the idea of starting a submarine
library, but after mailing 200 books around the world over the last year, that
seems a little too same old- same old. I also thought about organizing
and tagging the archives. Using the old 80/20 rule, you can probably get
80% of the hard core submarine data from reading 20% of the posts, if someone
would simply indentify those 20%. I could also organize them by topic:
wet subs, batteries, prices, distributors, etc. Or perhaps I will
develop a series of white papers on various topics. I am not sure.
What do you think the community needs?
Prepare To
Dive...Dive!,
Doug Farrow