The British Caving Association

Caves & Karst of the Yorkshire Dales - Volume 2 We are pleased to announce that Volume Two of this book will be launched on 4 October 2017, price £30, and will be available to order online from that date, for £30 including UK postage. Information is at http://bcra.org.uk/bookshop/dales.html but...

posted on behalf of Rob Gill The next CREG field meeting will be held in the Yorkshire Dales over the weekend of 28th/29th October and reports from regular attendees suggest that quite a lot of activities are already being planned. However, if you attend less frequently, or haven’t yet been to a CR...

In this newsletter... Cave & Karst Science 44(2) slightly delayed BCRA AGM, Leeds, 21 October BCRA Cave Science Symposium, 21 Oct CREG journal 99 published CREG field meeting 28-29 October 2017 Hidden Earth 29 Sept to 1 Oct BCA Ballot Special offer on Hidden Earth admission Cave & Karst Scie...

CREG Journal 99 - The September issue - is now online at http://bcra.org.uk/cregj (If your online subscription has expired, you will find out when you try to log in). CREG journal 99 will be posted to subscribers within the next week, hopefully. (If your paper CREG subscription has now expired, it w...

CREG Journal 98 - The June issue - is now online and will be posted to subscribers within the next week, hopefully. If your paper CREG subscription has now expired, it will say so on the wrapper. Please renew at http://creg.org.uk/renew If your online subscription has expired, you will find out when...

I was disappointed that Robin Gape's article (Cave Radio and the Loran-C spectrum, CREGJ 97, pp7-9) made no reference to the significant discussion of Loran-C that has already taken place in the CREG journal, with articles by myself, Mike Bedford, Rob Gill, John Hey, Antonio Muñoz, Graham Naylor, Jo...

There was a (single) spam attack across a range of BCA's Mailman lists earlier today. (Including BCRA and CSCC lists; possibly more). This was a fairly "ordinary" spam attack and has been identified as being due to a particular loophole in the way the lists were configured. If anyone need ...

In this newsletter... Cave & Karst Science 44(1) published CREG journal 97 published BCRA Field Meeting, May 19-21 CREG Field Meeting, May 19-21 BCRA Cave Science Symposium, 21 Oct Hidden Earth 29 Sept to 1 Oct Calling all past BCRA Authors Cave & Karst Science 44(1) published C&KS volum...

Posted on behalf of Rob Gill... A quick update to confirm the CREG Field Meeting is on track for the weekend of 20th/21st May. We have accommodation reserved courtesy of Wessex Cave Club at Upper Pitts, BA5 3AX - directions: http://wessex-cave-club.org/?page_id=128 . We have bunk spaces booked for ...

...and here is a tip from Matt Wire on forcing the WWW prefix to be dropped. Apparently, allowing both www and non-www URLs is "not helpful for SEO/analytics". RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+) [NC] RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI}?debug=%{TIME} [R=301...

Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS The new BCA server offers the HTTPS protocol at no added cost. If you want to direct your website readers to an HTTPS URL put this short bit of code in the .htaccess file in your document root. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteR...

BCA's IT team has recently implemented several features to enhance the reputation of email passing through its servers. This was done to reduce the amount of spam which, in turn, enhances the reputation of the servers and prevents large ISPs from periodically blocking BCA email. These measures, know...

CREG Journal 97 - The March issue - was put online on 1 March and now, after some delay (apologies), has been posted to subscribers today. I can also announce that the full set of CREG back-issues is now available online. If your CREG subscription has now expired, it will say so on the wrapper. Ple...

CREG journal 97 - the March 2017 issue - is now online at http://bcra.org.uk/cregj and will be mailed to subscribers by the end of next week, although hopefully sooner. I will post another message when the paper edition goes in the post. Online subscriptions: People occasionally ask: how do I tell w...

As Speleology is no longer published, we do not have a printed outlet for short caving articles and reviews. For items that are not suitable for Cave & Karst Science or the BCRA Review you could consider posting them here, where they will reside - if not for posterity - then at least as long as ...