Julian,
thanks for letting me know,
I look forward to continuing our discussion, but upon receiving your email i find i am disappointed yet again by
this group.
>>> Steve, I have been asked to remove this
discussion thread from this newsgroup, so I will
>>> Email you
directly this weekend. Julian
Oh i'm sorry,
did i miss something? Asked to remove the thread. ?
yes, i am slightly pissed off. this will
be my only complaint e-mail on this subject, reply as you want but i am making a
point to the group and i wont be following
this up. i do however, want
to quote from the organisational charter:
"PSUBS.ORG was organized to promote and encourage the discussion,
designing, building, certifiying, owning and use of personal
submersibles. We define a personal submersible as any submarine
vehicle, manned or un-manned, dry, semi-dry, or wet that is owned and operated
by individuals or small private groups and clubs. In general, a personal
submersible is any underwater vehicle that can be owned by a member of the
general public, housed in their own garage, and does not require a floatilla of
support ships or large support staff to operate."
maybe i read
this wrong but, an ROV IS 'A SUBMARINE VEHICLE', 'UNMANNED', 'SELF BUILT'
and 'IS OWNED BY A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC' and is thus relevant for
discussion. it has been said, there can
never be too much discussion.
Here's me, i am actually building
something relevant, an underwater vehicle, as are many on this group
but why shouldn't i be able to continue the thread on the news group? what is it
that disagrees with the group. Is it the ROV bit
or us Brits or was my picture not professional enough for moki?
maybe it is because i only have a budget of about $2000 and not the $20,000+ to build the full size
version that i do want to build one day.
the thread has only been taken
up by two people but so what! todays amateur ROV builder is maybe tomorrows sub
pilot. it was starting to dwindle away anyway. i've tried
looking for other discussion forums on that subject but the project of a college
team about 3 years ago wasn't open to me. closed membership.
i look forward to
and do follow everything that
gets posted and there have been times when the relevance to manned
subs has gone off on a huge tangent, but look how we, sorry, look how you, deal with the interested,
albeit sometimes naive, people that wander in, post a question, and get the
piss taken out of them...for what? asking a question. and if you don't
know the answer NO question is ever a
stupid one.
i'm trying not to be bitter, ok we'll take it offline, but just consider it does just about amount to
censorship....not too long ago the group was
blasted for being too picky about things
and the resulting flame war almost
got out of hand. think on that next time it's really quiet and a college kid asks something
odd.
point made,
regards, steve