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Re: What to expect at the auction this year?



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?
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