thanx again hugh
you are quite right
& i am glad you mentioned our good old bp description
which is admittedly far more confusing than it needs
to be
mainly because whoever changed it last dropped the
word
t h e s e
presumably inadvertently
which i have reinserted for you in your transcription
of it here below
& i would agree with you that the present wording on
our home page is all the more confusing now that we
have created borderpoint too for practically
everything else that anyone has ever wanted to tack on
here at boundarypoint
whether unique in the originally intended sense or not
& whether actually pertinent or not
& of course it makes no sense at all to create a
unique site to specially honor these unique points
while also specially honoring anything else anybody
likes
as if all that were also equally unique & equally
pertinent
no sense at all
yet somehow thats what has actually happened over the
past 5 years
&
since hospitality has always been a higher value here
at bp than sense or authenticity or veracity or
accuracy etc
let alone multipunctiliousness
you can well imagine & perhaps even already see how
all the
as well ases & includings
somehow got added to our description over the years
by well meaning tho i think misoriented individuals
& this just because everyone kept talking about
whatever they liked
which is after all a very fine thing to do
even in disregard of the actual & admittedly
increasingly unclear original intention behind the
group
you can even see how this happened if you care to read
our first few hundred messages & just infer the rest
from there
but at least some of us have always been & continue to
be in earnest about the multipointing fun for which
the group was actually created
& our latest & i think quite successful effort to
accommodate all the other interests & funs that have
landed here over the years
even while maintaining our original deliberate focus
on multipointing fun
is embodied by
voila
the new borderpoint list
& it is for this reason that i so look forward to your
multipointing reports here & wish you would direct
people who are interested in multipointing to
boundarypoint
& people who are interested in international borders
to borderpoint
esoteric we are
i like that
thanx
--- Hugh Wallis <
hugh@...> wrote:
> You're right - I meant to say "esoteric"
>
> Now - the BoundaryPoint description says:
>
> "BoundaryPoint is an international open discussion
> list for "pointers and
> bounders"...those "slightly strange" individuals who
> are interested in
> finding, researching, photographing and discussing
> geopolitical boundary
> points, especially those of a tri-state or
> multipoint nature. BP members
> discuss their "mini-expeditions" to
t h e s e
unique points on
> the earth, as well as
> boundary related interests including general
> boundary issues, multipointing,
> boundary cartography and boundary photographs to
> name a few, as well as the
> societal differences resulting from the presence of
> political and linguistic
> boundaries. Whether you're into international
> multipointing, or merely
> crossing state lines, we hope you enjoy
> BoundaryPoint."
>
>
> which, although it seems to focus mainly on
> tripointing allows for topics of
> border interest that are not just regular old
> borders - and I figured that
> enclaves were one such :)
>
> I think it would be a good idea to make the
> distinction clearer - I will
> direct people to both lists so they can choose for
> themselves.
>
> I hope to get the Tripoint stuff up later but I'm
> trying to do this during a
> meeting so might not get to it today :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Hugh
>
>
> _____
>
> From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of aletheia kallos
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:20 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Llívia Enclave -
> 2005-09-10 - trip report now
> available
>
>
> thanx hugh for including boundarypoint on this fresh
> report from the field while trypointing in spain
>
> i am elated to see you not only voting with your
> feet
> but also promising actual tripointing material
>
> i would add that your final comment & invitation
> at your link below
> gives boundarypoint far too much credit for being
> eclectic tho
>
> rather it is borderpoint that is the eclectic one
> & now that it exists
> boundarypoint is thankfully all the more focussed on
> its main game of multipointing
>
> indeed thats why the 2 groups have been created
> independently
>
> so please make this slight but i think necessary
> adjustment
>
> thanx & i can scarcely wait to hear about your
> tripoint tries
>
> --- Hugh Wallis <hugh@...> wrote:
>
> > You can visit
> >
>
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/Llivia/
> > - or
> > http://tinyurl.com/9sjth for short - if you want
> my
> > trip report on the
> > Llívia enclave from this weekend. Lots of photos -
> > but beware they are each
> > about 700KB (only small thumbnails appear on the
> > main page though so you
> > should be OK even on a dial up connection) -
> > boundary markers and general
> > views and a few personal comments.
> >
> > Sorry about the advertising on this page -
> activate
> > your pop-up stoppers!!
> > (but at least they give me unlimited free
> > webspace!!)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Hugh
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