From: James Purchase Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 3:08 PM > ...I would like to explain _why_ the free-wheeling discussions > of weeks past were curtailed... No need on my part - I think I just conveyed the wrong impression. Perhaps "postponed" would have been a better choice than "abruptly curtailed". > ...We seem to have settled on a set of Criteria and I have asked > about "fleshing them out" with short descriptive paragraphs to > clarify things both for contestants and the Judges...Karen had > suggested that we test our Criteria by holding a little "mock > contest"...I have been spending some free time (_what_ free > time???) doing up another web-site - this one for a "mock > Judging" of "mock entries"... > I _hope_ that it will show _exactly_ the point that David makes > in his post - that we have to give careful consideration to what > we request as images if we are going to be able to be fair in our > assessment of the aquascapes submitted...With any luck, the > next step in our journey will help us see how effective our newly > minted set of Criteria are, and what we might need in the way of a > boost to get a concencus on "Submission Elements". Two birds > with one stone - well, that's the theory anyway... Rats! I should've known you'd be one step ahead of me on this one. > ...Hope this addresses your concerns David. In a most excellent fashion. Thanks. -Y- David A. Youngker nestor10@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~nestor10 ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@aquatic-gardeners.org with "unsubscribe aga-contest" in the body of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, add "subscribe aga-contest-digest" in the same message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-contest