Another option is changing the board to a phpBB style board where you can receive "private messages" but hide your email address if you'd like. Here's just one example: http://www.plantedtank.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=33930d1971d0d412fbf90e4ffcc124f6 Food for thought. Sorry that had to happen... -Wes --- Barbie <barbie@fishaholics.org> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Erik. I didn't realize it was > "allowed" for someone to use my email from the list > to send me nasty email. I do now. It won't happen > again. I guess I should have used an email that > isn't my personal one. > > I wasn't actually asking about the meetings. I do > realize they have had those dates for years. I was > simply asking about the annual auction. I've been > an active member of both the MASI organization in > St. Louis and the Heartland club in Kansas City and > been to numerous large auctions held by both. I was > curious about the choice for the weekday auction was > all. I'd genuinely like to participate and bring > fry from the different fish I have spawning at this > time, and make connections with other fish keepers > within driving distance. I greatly enjoy the > networking involved with being a club member. Sorry > that won't be possible. > > Barbie > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Erik Olson > To: gsas-member@thekrib.com > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:29 PM > Subject: Re: What to expect at the auction this > year? > > > Barbie, > > We have discussed different options for the > meeting night in the past. > Our "sister club" GPAS in Portland has actually > gone so far as to hold a > Saturday meeting once per quarter for the big > speakers. But they end up > getting less attendance than on their weekday > meetings. Why? I'm not > sure exactly, but I think there's a whole bunch of > people who don't mind > having a weekday taken up with a club meeting, but > when it's their > Saturday, no way. My guess is that this would > probably happen here too. > > I would normally add regarding the not-so-nice > reply, "keep the list > civilized." Then again, he did mail the nasty > comment to you off-list, > and there's not really much *we* can do about > nasty personal mails. And > worse, one should also be a bit careful in > forwarding private e-mails back > onto a public list. > > - Erik > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Barbie wrote: > > > I have a question about the auction. I'd > intended to make the 5.5 hour > > trek from Spokane, but have discovered that will > be impossible, due to > > the scheduling of an appointment I can't change. > Is there a specific > > reason the auction is on a Tuesday? It makes it > nearly impossible for > > us out of towners to join in. I do realize your > meetings are always on > > Tuesdays, so it keeps with the schedule, but the > auctions usually > > attract many people that aren't active in the > club, IME from other clubs > > I've belonged to around the US. Is this > something that has ever been > > discussed? Or am I the only one that it > excludes? > > > > Barbie Reed > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Tony > > To: gsas-member@thekrib.com > > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:45 PM > > Subject: What to expect at the auction this > year? > > > > > > Anybody know? > > ------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this list, please send > mail to majordomo@thekrib.com > > with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of > the message. Archives of > > this list can be found at > http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/ > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > multipart/alternative > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > text/html > > --- > > ------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail > to majordomo@thekrib.com > > with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of > the message. Archives of > > this list can be found at > http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/ > > > > > > -- > Erik Olson > erik at thekrib dot com > > ------------------ > To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail > to majordomo@thekrib.com > with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the > message. Archives of > this list can be found at > http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/ > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > ------------------ > To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to > majordomo@thekrib.com > with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the > message. Archives of > this list can be found at > http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/