One of the reasons I'm sorry that two registrants of the Lace Forum said their reasons for subsribing to the Lace Forum due because of trouble on Arachne was that I'm surprised that the internal trouble in Arachne has been mentioned on a web site outside of it.
I was talking to a lacemaker in Poole a few weeks ago and mentioned Arachne to her. She said she'd thought about joining, but she'd read on a lace web site that there'd been some kind of trouble so she'd decided not to. I couldn't understand why a web site would mention it, and I now assume it must be these comments on Lace Forum (but I could be wrong if it's been mentioned elsewhere). I explained to her that there were two lists; one to discuss lace and related topics, and that there had never been any trouble there. That lace-chat was a separate list where people who happen to be lacemakers talk about anything under the sun which isn't related to lace, and that it was lace-chat where things had got more than a bit heated because of differing opinions on a sensitive issue, but that steps had been taken to make sure it couldn't happen again. She wasn't convinced. So I wonder how many others have decided not to join us for the same reason. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
