Mark-
Dale Cook has gotten things straighten out again. Would you please
take me back off the sol sublist?
Also, after seeing all these anonymous new people joining the list, I
put together an introduction to brit-cars file to send to new
subscribers to get them involved and up to speed. After the general
overview, I try to stress two things; get involved, but keep the
volume down. Could you give it a look over and make any changes or
additions you feel would add to it. Is there a list of british-car
jokes floating around that could be appended to it? That way we won't
have to suffer through retellings of why-do-the-british-drink-warm-beer.
I don't have a spell checker, so there may be some typos. After you
work it over, mail it back. Then I'll pass it on to Roger Garnett to
give him a whack at it too, before bothering Dale Cook and the list in
general about it.
Thanks,
Lawrence Buja
southern@ncar.ucar.edu
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