Before you all start writing again about travel, please RE-READ my original message below. I said "unless you're actually describing lace classes or views of a lace collection."
Clarification: Sr. Claire's visits to lace collections are absolutely on-topic. Francis' experiences at IOLI will be (I presume) on-topic. Boob-sightings and quests for natural yogurt are not on-topic. Summary: Of course travel descriptions go off-topic from time to time. We're all human and have lives away from the bobbins and shuttles. I ignore these off-topic tangents. It's when they start to spawn threads of their own about yogurt or go on and on with very little lace content that I need to step in. Although many of you are interested in off-topic chat, I have to think of the people who are very busy and want to read primarily about lace, so that they don't have to wade through their digests looking for lace content. If you don't want to subscribe to lace-chat for any reason, you can bookmark the lace-chat archives (http://www.mail-archive.com/lace-c...@arachne) and follow the various threads until they end. Another possibility is for the travel-writer to set up, in most email address books, a "group" that sends emails to lace-chat and to anyone who doesn't subscribe to lace-chat but wants to receive those emails. It's fairly rare for me to step in and ask that a thread be moved. Most of you are very good about moving off-topic chat to lace-chat. I'm trying to protect the interests of all subscribers. Since we do have a chat list, it doesn't make sense to turn the main lace list into a chat list. BTW, if anyone is making, say, a cross-country road trip and wants to post about their adventures, the best way to do it is on a blog. It's incredibly easy to set one up, they can be updated minute by minute, and people can subscribe to your blog for updates. I've been using http://www.wordpress.com because it has some very good tools and templates. Avital ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Avital <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:28 AM Subject: Admin: travel To: "Arachne.com" <[email protected]> Dear Arachnes, I realise that a lot of you are traveling this month but the stories are getting a bit long and the threads they generate are veering off-topic. I gently suggest that you move them to lace-chat, unless you're actually describing lace classes or views of a lace collection. Thank-you, Avital Arachne moderator - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
