I was making no prognostications, Candice, just describing something
hereabouts, which group too still acquires new visitors, btw, but with a law
of diminishing enthusiasms in operation.
Matthew's point about posts being not intended for wider publication is an
important one, and a tricky ponder.
Mine are almost always off the cuff, and written fast, and often too just
'thinking aloud', as were my previous, Candice.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: archive
> Can't resist a mischievous impulse to allude to The Fugs by way of
> countering David's Golden Bard Retirement Home prognostications with the
> information that we've acquired quite a few new members in the past couple
> of weeks, some of whom I suspect of having joined to get a look at the
> archives--but then stayed. And who can blame them, the way the joint's
been
> jumping on topic lately?
>
> Candice
>
> P.S. If you missed The Fugs allusion, you're probably too young for this
> list.
>
>
> on 8/9/01 6:43 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
>
> > Further to my below and previous, this group I attend (or one of them) -
> > whose governing committee are not described as a comparison to this
list's
> > minders btw ! - had similar problems with disruptive characters, a la
> > certain personages, and its reaction was to start keeping itself 'within
the
> > family', with the result that a once diverse and flowing meeting of like
and
> > unlike is ossifying into an ageing and and increasingly sparse
population,
> > which will probably soon dissolve altogether.
> >
> > The locked archives I think are a wise move for the present, but I'd be
> > saddened to see it always so.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: archive
> >
> >
> >> I'm inclined similarly to the notion of the archives being locked only
as
> > a
> >> temporary measure, particularly as all groups need to maintain
themselves
> > by
> >> being open to outside renewal. A poetry workshop I've attended for a
> > decade
> >> is both ageing and declining because its governing committee's
> >> disinclination to let it be known to the 'wrong sort'.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Dave
>
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