Hello Everyone, Recently, some people have been posting questions to both SharedWeight and to trad-dance-callers more frequently. I understand the desire to reach the most number of people and how easy it is to post to both lists. However, you may not realize that the majority of experienced callers on this list also belong to t-d-c. You also may not realize that there are people on t-d-c who are hitting "reply all" when responding to the messages and triggering moderator requests when their messages try to post to SharedWeight. Seth and I have discussed this a few times, and while we don't want to discourage discussion on this list, the topics and threads on t-d-c tend to drift towards discussions of minutia or historical events or cultural differences between dance styles. While these topics are interesting and valuable to experienced callers with broad experiences, we hope to keep discussion on this list directed towards topics of use to beginner or intermediate callers of contra and traditional squares. Our hope for this list is to be a different place for discussion instead of a subset or extension of the t-d-c list. We hope that the people in this group feel the same way. We will not bring this up again unless there are complaints by members of t= his list. Thank you for your attention, Chris Weiler and Seth Seeger http://www.sharedweight.net/
