Hi, Roger, et al ---
I am sorry that the posts about the postcard exchange
are irritating you. Most of the e-mail outside of open recruitment,
has been private. By the way, the listowner is himself a participant,
a "drooler" and has had nothing but praise and encouragement for this
project.
I have asked all the participants to address all direct mail to me
off-list, and the great majority have complied.
One thing to keep in mind is that while it is true that
the number of participants is a miniscule percentage of the PF
membership, they easily account for a minimum of 2/3rds if not
more of all the posts on PF, and at least that many reviews.
They are not insignificant in their contributions to, and
presence on, this list. They, in fact, keep this list alive
by generating the majority of the content on it, a lot of the
FAQs on Andy's page, and answering questions posed by the
cognoscenti to those of the occassional lurker that surfaces.
I understand the points you made, and although it is too late
in this project to find someone to put up a webpage, etc., that
is a good suggestion, and one that I will incorporate in future
projects I will bring to PF members. This time, I really wanted
to K.I.S.S. on this project.
As long as I have the listowner's approval/permission to do these
projects on the list, they will be part of it, and posts related
to this will be seen on this list.
This is not the first project whose recipients have liberally
posted on this list. The PTC generated hundreds of posts, and
it was almost two years before a single picture from it went up
on a website. It is still generating many posts, and as with the
Postcard Exchange, with the approval and participation of the
listowner. This project is not even three months old. If you
have a beef with this, please take it up with
him, after all, it is his list, and we are all guests here.
Otherwise, I would suggest using the delete button or filtering
out messages with "PE-I", "postcard", or "Post Card" in them.
Consider this an official invitation to the next exchange.
--- Luis
