Neville, You and I along with several others that are or were on the list came over when Byard got this one going after the "flyty" list went under. It has been a long friendship. Tony
--- Neville Gosling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I joined VFB when Byard first started it. Prior to > that, I subscribed to a > list run by Ross Purnell under the auspices of Fly > Fisherman Magazine. That > list died for a while, probably due to a server > failure, and the owners of > that list at that time had other priorities to deal > with and so we were left > without a fly tying & fly fishing list until Byard > came to our rescue with > an invitation to join VFB. > > I believe that it is very hard to reinvent ourselves > and go back to what the > list used to be like. For one, the list is not the > same without the people > that were on the list at the time it was fun. My > local fly fishing club has > a similar problem and many long time members > complain that the club is not > as good as it used to be. The point is that members > and people come and go, > sometime due to lack of interest, due to job > location and sometimes due to > death. A list is like a club and is influenced by > its members. When the > members change, so does the influence. I believe > that it is not possible to > have the same rapport, respect, knowledge, fun etc > as in the early days of > this list without the same people. Hopefully we can > have similar. Nothing > remains the same for long however and change is > constant. > > Like Tony, I can think of a lot of former VFB'ers > that no longer subscribe > to this list. Others come and go for whatever > reason. > > Are we clicky? I think we are to a point. We should > welcome new members more > that we do currently. When we go off on tangents > which I am not interested > in, I just find the delete key. Perhaps we are stale > or bored and that is > why the conversation has little to do with fly tying > & fishing. > > Byard, you used to have more to say than you do now. > Your postings are now > quite rare. > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > Greater Vancouver, > B.C. Canada > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
