Subject: Re: Ahem an oyster & a pearl
Date: Sep 06, 2003 @ 14:54
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> > I quote the text at the beginning of thispoints,
> > group:
> > >
> > > "Welcome to BoundaryPoint! BoundaryPoint is an
> international
> > open discussion list for
> > > "pointers and bounders"...individuals who are interested in
> > finding, researching,
> > > photographing and discussing geopolitical boundary
> > especially those of a tri-since
> > > state or multipoint nature. We discuss our various
> > "mini-expeditions" to these various
> > > unique points on the earth."
>
> this was exactly correct when you quoted it
> so it gives us a conveniently dated text for comparison
> because you have just jogged my memory to reinstate a few of
> our founding father bills original words that have been lost
> around message 619 about 3 years ago when they wereor
> inexplicably shanghaied to taiwan
> as you can see near the end of this slightly strange page
> http://jidanni.org/geo/us_can1994
> where the 3 additional words
> those slightly strange
> appear following the 3 dots & just before the familiar words
> individuals who are interested in finding etc etc
>
> & you can now also see the missing words reinstated near the
> top of the bp home page
>
>
> of course this new or rather old wording probably comes as no
> surprise & may even be a welcome sight to our original charter
> members who arrived before the message morphed
>
> but i realize the great majority of our individuals
> most of whom arrived after message 619
> might have some reaction to being so suddenly characterized
> mischaracterized in this waydiscussion
>
> so in fairness to all
> & also in view of the apparent confusion over the meaning of
> especially
> i believe the final wording of this our only known constitution
> should remain an open question & subject to further