Dear Ben & everybody,
I ytied to access to bbs given here and my daughter's computer couldn't find
it; since her husband is a programmer I assume that that problem is wider
than just in this computer,,,I agree that many messages at Majordomo are
repetitive and many don't apply personally, but at present it seems to be
the only message board I can get.
I have been interested in playing hg for some time, ordered one some years
ago, but have not yet been in a position to start learning to play. This
year I was going to finally get to the OTW festival, but open-heart surgery
and three months of not working nipped that in the bud for this year. I have
a guitar-become-hg according to Dennis Havlena's plan, but the guy who did
the work (I have no workshop myself for lack of space) has also had many
health problems, and it's not yet playable.
Seems like everybody who writes here is at least a beginning player. Anyone
else out there who is still a wannabe like myself? I live in West Virginia
but am staying in Charlotte NC at present.
Daniel Musick
From: Ben Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: hurdy gurdy list <[email protected]>
Subject: [HG] bbs?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:02:42 -0400
Dear hurdy gurdy gals and guys,
I hope that this note finds you all well.
Like, perhaps many of you, I have had an on-again-off-again relationship
with this email list. I have found myself at times, enjoying it, cursing
it, laughing at (er, it mean with) it, rolling my eyes at it, and often
un-subscribing from it because it just drives me nuts. Perhaps you have
some of these symptoms:
- small floods of messages regarding things in which you have no interest
whatsoever?
- frequent urges to scream at the messages asking questions that have
been asked and answered before? Sometimes MANY times before? (i.e. no
archive and search feature)
- the wish to have messages better organised by subject/thread/ category?
(i.e. if you are only interested in historical stuff, you can look at that
only. Or if you have no interest in the latest plywood contraption from
Ebay, you can avoid that)
- the desire to view and respond to messages how and when you want to
rather than have them come tumbling into your inbox willy-nilly? And not
to have to set filters etc. so that you don't get HG-list messages filling
up your Blackberry or whatever when you're on the road?
- etc. etc.
My I propose that we move to a bulletin board system instead of an email
list? I'm sure that you are all familiar with BBSs, so you have an idea
of what I'm proposing. For those who still really want email, they can
chose to have all messages on a certain thread forwarded to the address
that they specify in the registration.
Of course I would like to know what you all think of this idea - I would
love to do a poll (something that is simple on a BBS) rather than have you
all write into the email list (further clogging up our in-boxes!). I
think that this would only really work if everyone on the list migrated to
the BBS. It would be a shame to have a BBS that puttered out for lack of
participation as it would be a shame for the current BBS.
If you want to have a look at what I have in mind, I've set one up for us
(a start anyway) at http://www.macrophone.org/hg
If you like what you see, please go ahead and register. I've made a guess
as to how is should be set up, but I welcome your input and suggestions.
Thanks and best regards,
ben
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