Laurent wrote: > What struck me when I first joined is the number of personal messages > and inuendos that one can only grasp after being on the list for a > while. Now I'm used to it, but I can see how it would make new > members feel this is a very select club that's hard to enter.
That's a very good point, and here's a suggestion (or two or three) to "fix" it: We could refrain from the innuendo, although I think that might detract from the spirit of the list and the friendships made over the last 6 years. We have a "Member Profiles" section (http://www.jmdl.com/gallery/profiles.cfm). Perhaps we can update our profiles to reflect a little membership history? Also, I would encourage everyone who feels comfortable to create a profile for herself or himself. There is also a "Meet the Staff" section (http://www.jmdl.com/staff.cfm), which could also be updated similar to the above. We can perhaps promote both of these sections in the introductory letter that new subscribers receive. (0r perhaps that's already happening?) And/or ... we could perhaps create a new page to include some of the innuendo and history, etc., where new folks could go to figure out, for example, the difference between the Bobs (Muller and Murphy) and why they "dis" each other all the time, or the story of Alison and Stephen's "marriage." Much of that stuff is in the JoniFest pages, but it might be nice to have a "summary" page of history and stories. (As if you need something else to do, Les!) Just my 2 cents at the moment. Lori
