Hi,
I am currently reading back about a year or so of messages of the list, since the past year I just haven't had time to read them. I have to make some comments about the discussion that was happening back in March about lurkers one the list. Yeah, I have been a member of this list for many years, not sure, but possibly since shortly after it started. I have never posted much, too busy with life, specially with owning and running a yarnshop for 10.5 years. I did keep reading about lace of and on, but only as time permitted. I am now retired, and have more time to make lace, but again, this past year has been occupied with husband's health issues, one thing after another. Hopefully it is now over and done with, and I hope to get back to doing more lace making. In the meantime, I want to make a few remarks as to why I think some people don't contribute much, is because it is not easy to post to this list. The way it is set up is that when you hit reply, the message gets send to the person who posted the original message instead of the list. That is rather disconcerting, considering that most if not all the Yahoo lists I belong to are all set to reply to the list. One does not realize what happened if the person who ends up getting the reply does not react, and you end up wondering why your message never ended up on the list. Were you being monitored and blocked? That would put people off and not ever bother posting again. I realize that it probably originally was set that way to stop all the 'me too' messages, but I think it is very off-putting, and I think it should be revisited and maybe changed. Specially since there is no indication with any of the messages as to how to post to the list. There is info on how to unsubscribe, and how to get help, but not about how to post. And yes, another reason I have been quiet is because I have had the experience on other lists of being slammed for no reason, so I decided to just keep quiet. But I also want to mention that reading about people taking their pillows into public has got me thinking. I'll have to make myself a small portable bag type pillow to carry around with me. I have had the habit in the last few years to take my knitting with me wherever I go, and I knit when we go out for dinner, since my husband is always watching whatever is on them tv screens, and I got tired of talking to myself, so now I knit. But there is no reason not to do some simple lace making, and it would draw some new comments and conversations with other people, like my knitting used to (it is now too common, so I think a change is needed). And that way I can see if I can find some people interested in lace making and maybe get a club going around here. My have to make up some calling cards to hand to people that might be interested. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth, even though we no longer have cents in this country....I know it is an old discussion, but I just wanted to let my thoughts be known. Marianne Marianne Gallant Vernon, BC www.yarnshop.ca [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
