Mark Deelaney
On 9/30/06, Anthony Spezio <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
>
>
>
>
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