Re: Purpose of the list (was Re: [BPARK] Shugborough)

 --- David Hamer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe that Geoff's comments - perhaps arising from frustration as
> J.V. Field suggests in her comment below - were spawned by the fact that,
> as often happens in this forum, the serious but necessarily muted cry
> for help [or a least a few words of moral support] from Tony Sale that
> began the thread was quickly submerged in a series of OT comments on
> the rather amusing but not very relevant Shugborough 'project'. It was
> to the  first of these postings that Geoff, quite reasonably, cried "off
> topic".
<snip>
> What we need to do however is to stay 'on topic' within a thread once it is
> established. If someone must put in his/her "ten cent's worth" on some
> subject outside of a current thread he/she should begin a new one...as
> long as it has some relevance to things historically or currently
> associated with Bletchley Park.

Sorry, yes, this was what I intended, although I exhibited a large degree of
technical cluelessness.

> Currently BP [or at least it museum and archive components] seems to be
> on a slide into the abyss and anything that can be done to stop such a
> descent must be tried.

While I'm afraid I'm not at all up on the situation at BP, I have only the
greatest respect for both Tony Sale and the Colossus rebuild project -- he
certainly has my moral support.

Matt



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