[Keith Pickering]

Thanks to all for the warm welcome. (and sorry for the double-posting ... ). SunkenCiv, I'd be happy to join the GGG ping group. And don't worry about catty remarks; I'm a big boy and I don't mind, as long as it doesn't get personal. Although if we knew the reason for the disagreement, that might raise the level of discussion ... :-)

[ruoflaw]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on such an interesting subject.

[WVNan]

Just adding my welcome to the others. My interests reside in the "gods" part of the thread. Never gave much thought to Columbus or where he first set foot. Nice to have experts check in to keep things interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

Whaaaat! Raise the level of discussion?!?! Why, I oughta add you to the GGG ping list... ;') We have the "normal" ping list (individual pings, one per thread, done as a single message from each thread) and the weekly digest, which some prefer.

If you're only on one ping list, the volume shouldn't bother you much. There are a bunch of Columbus related threads in the GGG listing, which I'll try to extract in a few minutes (from the file here on the iMac) and email 'em.

Also, if you scroll up a bit you'll see the link to the GGG keyword page, which shows all the threads which have been added, in order of their being added. I use that myself when I'm somewhere besides home and can't find some darned thread or other. Unfortunately there's no alternative sort, but hey, this is "free republic" not "pay extra republic."

Again, welcome. Did you find this by search, or did someone tip ya off? Nope, I don't wanna know...

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