On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:41:37 -0500, Mike <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >The last few recommendations that I seen from the DIR camp on >open water rigs have been with 40" hoses on both primary and >secondary rather than the 5' hose. Or rather than the 6' or 7' hose. It's about time they DSR (Do SOMETHING RIght)! :-) Their next step is to get out of their Neanderthal suit and wake up to the fact that we HAVE BEEN in the dive-computer age, for YEARS! BTW, an internet-connection IDIOT that I yam, I have been stumped for months as to why I could receive email from my regular RFLING email account (using Eudora -- my much preferred emailer) while I am away from home, and NOT able to send or reply from it. So, I have been using my posting address for Scuba-SE for EMAIL when I was away from my SC home, even though I NEVER use Yahoo email (because it's a POS) even for posting here because of the ridiculously short line-limit imposed by Yahoo (I use the LISTSERV archives webpage for reading and posting instead). I yam happy to announce that from NOW on, if anyone sends me EMAIL to [log in to unmask], it may be there for weeks or months before I read it. ALWAYS use [log in to unmask], from now until eternity. :-) To spite those who had used the saying "there are BOLD divers, and there are OLD divers, but there are no OLD, BOLD divers" to flame me, I have decided to live and dive boldly FOREVER. So far, so good. :-)) But seriously, the mere thought that I may live forever (because of advances in medical science) scares the HELL out of ME <G>, not to mention those who have to put up with me. <BWG> So, I may change my mind about living forever some day. But until then, to quote the immortal: Strike> "I yam what I yam; and that's all that I yam, says Popeye Strike> the sailorman. Toot-Toot!" (The toot-toot bit was from Strike> the pipe always stuck in the side of his mouth!) :-) And here I jam, Boop-Boop! (The boop-boop bit is from the horn of the Chattanooga Choo Choo.) :-) -- Bob.