Re: [MOPO] Dropping MoPo membership

[chris quarles]

Me too.

 

chris quarles

lobby card invasion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Bruce, I too received your original email.

Zeev


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Dropping MoPo membership


> THIS IS WHAT DRIVES ME CRAZY ABOUT MOPO! Yesterday afternoon I sent
> two e-mails to MoPo. One (a FA one) seemed to be distributed right
> away, and I saw it on the MoPo website a short time later. The other
> (which is copied below) did NOT seem to be distributed, did NOT show
> on the MoPo website, and I have seen no replies to it. So DID IT GET
> DISTRIBUTED OR NOT, and how does on know the difference? Both were
> sent from the same computer minutes apart, so I can't see why they
> should have gone their separate ways.
>
> Maybe Scott might want to consider switching to some other mail
> server. This one seems to have lots of problems (and yes, they seem
> much greater of late).
>
> Below is the post I tried to make yesterday:
>
> JR and Claude
>
> I have seen your replies to my post of last night, and no others at
> this point. But let me clarify that I fully agree that MoPo is far
> better (for me, and obviously for you both) than the other discussion
> boards. MoPo members DO stay on topic far more, are far more
> "genteel", have a far greater total knowledge of the hobby, etc, etc
>
> But that does not mean it can't get much better! I see no point in
> dwelling on the past, but I suggest that some of the members might
> try to reach deep into their brains for questions about MOVIE POSTERS
> that have puzzled them, and then we will see if the collective
> knowledge of MoPo can answer them. Things like "Did Paramount EVER
> make title cards?" (they did), "What did Paramount do in place of
> title cards?", "Why do almost all French and Italian posters of the
> past 40 years seem to be incredibly easy to find, but ones from
> before that are super-hard to find?", "What WERE window cards used
> for?", or any other question that might be of somewhat general
> interest, but is likely NOT common knowledge.
>
> JR asked "Bruce, as a seller who regularly sends FA messages to this
> list, I don't understand your point here... are you saying sellers
> shouldn't send through ads? Or that they shouldn't abuse the privilege?"
>
> I am saying that sellers who regularly post FA or FS messages should
> realize that those messages would reap FAR greater results if they
> weren't mostly reaching other dealers, and that the best way to do
> this would be to regularly post NON-selling e-mails in addition to
> their selling e-mails, for then MoPo would attract a lot more
> collectors, so it would be a good investment for those dealers. Of
> course, not everyone will do this. There are always going to be some
> "jerks" who flood the list with FA or FS sale e-mails and never post
> anything else. But most likely just about everyone has learned to
> delete or block these people, so I don't think they really matter.
>
> Look at some of those people who are known to be members of MoPo:
> Sam, Kirby, Walter, Sean, Ron, Tony, and many others. Collectively
> they are hundreds of years of poster selling experience, and I doubt
> that the entire rest of the world knows as much about movie posters
> as this group does (offhand, the only dealers I can think of with
> encyclopedic knowledge of movie paper who are NOT MoPo members are
> Mike Hawks and Joe Burtis, and maybe Ken Schacter, who might well be
> a silent member). Yet how many times do you see the above group of
> people posting? If each of them posted just a couple of times a week
> with a sliver of what they know (whether answering questions or
> opening subjects), MoPo would be become exponentially more of a place
> that all collectors would want to be a part of.
>
> Bruce
>
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