At 03:00 PM 7/3/2008 -0400, you wrote:

Hi
Dave,

SNIP

       But could we have a field which dates the
particular entries, please?

       Have you considered requesting an annual
update from all members? Something like 'have you checked you entry
recently and are there any changes / amendments, please'? Some of the
information seems to be quite old and in need of some attention.

       Regards,

       Chris Chapman



Hi  Chris and group

   Yes Entry Dates,   that has been started after
suggestions to me from John Lahr

last week. the Entry/ Update date will be in brackets to the left of
the  member

number.

    when I find some time I will go back through at least
some of the recent (last ~

couple of years and take some entry dates from when I received emails
from 

people when they wanted to be added.  I have saved a good number of
those

emails.


Yes I usually do an annual  update request and have done so for the
last 5+ years

and apart from that, the keeners members send me updates even without my


request  :)

    Unfortunately that doesn't help with members who have
"passed away"  or 

others who have  just left the seismology game and havent told me to
delete them

from the list.  I'm sure there are prob. upwards of 6 stations that
could be deleted

What do I do ?  email the 120 odd people directly and see if they
respond ??

a time consuming job.  How long do I wait for a reply before
deciding if they no

longer exist or just havent bothered to respond, before I delete them
myself.  ?? 


maybe I just have no choice and need to do that   :)


In general the data is reasonably accurate. Particularly when related to
the ~ 25%

of  really active stations ... the keen ones :)


some thoughts  


cheers

Dave Nelson

Sydney