I was planing something similar on SwedneckFlyfishing.com Nick
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] För Don Ordes Skickat: den 31 december 2010 16:38 Till: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Ämne: Re: [VFB] VFB Is the VFB slowly dying? Your idea to revitalize VFB I could ask Darren to put a hi-visibility ad on my FantasyFlies.com site to give some traffic this way. D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Zillmann" <rene.zillm...@t-online.de> To: <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 5:01 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] VFB Is the VFB slowly dying? Your idea to revitalize VFB > Hi Jimmy, > my ideas are quite simple on this matter. > > 1. this is our list. (some patronage from Byard, for sure). But it's > our. So, we are responsible for the list, and if/when (always messing > up with these words) we like the list and the gang, we should start > something on the list. Like Don e.g. report about new materials, > fishing reports, ff-news you read somewhere, etc. And if/when we see > these sort of posts on the list.. Start a discussion. > > 2. We need some marketing for the list. In the old days, this > advertising instrument was the VFB Website. It would be great, if we > could find a way to revitalize it. So, that others can find us and > join the group. I think this is important, because newbes (list > newbees, maybe ff newbees), will add new ideas, questions, flavor etc. > to the gang, So my question is: @Byard, any idea, when it will be > possible to revitalize the VFB Box? If this is not possible, we should > try to start a new page, maybe in the Google-world there is a free > opportunity for such things. > > Rene > > > On 12/30/2010 10:56 PM, ray...@earthlink.net wrote: >> TO: VFB MEMBERS >> FROM: VFB LIST MANAGERS: >> JIMMY D. MOORE, ALLAN FISH, SALTY DAN >> >> For several months, I and several other VFB members have felt that >> our Beloved VFB is slowly dying. There are several indicators that >> point to the demise of the VFB. (1.) From an alltime high of 600+ >> members just a few years ago to the current 220 VFB members. Of the >> 220 members, (2.) I recognize only 41 names/email addresses. I've >> been on the list for nearly 10 years and pretty well knew all the >> active members. I had over 70 VFB members on my Joke for the Day >> list. >> >> (3.) There's very few posts each day, not at all like the 15 to 20 we >> used to have, back in the days when some would complain about the VFB >> clogging their In-box. (4.) When a question was posed to the list, >> you could always count on 5 - 10 good sound answers for your problem. >> Nowadays very few questions get answered. >> >> We had some mighty good threads, like spine vs spline, furled vs mono >> leaders, and on and on. And yes, there was a lot of (5.)good natured >> "Banter'. People now seem to be afraid to kid one another for fear of >> being taken the wrong way. >> >> What I'm getting at is for VFB members to e-mail me off list with >> your suggestions of how to "jump start" the VFB and get'er running at >> full throttle again. I'll take your suggestions and incorporate them >> into an answer back to you. All suggestions will be listed in my >> e-mail answer to the group. I don't want the VFB to die. It would >> definitely put a big hole in things I love most. >> >> Before I forget it, if you'll look at the bottom of each VFB post >> you'll notice that LinesEnd fly shop is the sponsor of the VFB e-mail >> list. We have Byard Miller, list owner to thank for keeping the VFB >> available. One last thing. The Virtual Flybox Website no longer >> exists. It got to the point that Byard just didn't have the time to >> devote to keeping it current. >> >> Best Personal Regards, >> >> JIMMY D, <ray...@earthlink.net> >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To > unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
