Hi Mopar,

Not sure I got my original message across all that clearly - I'm not 
planning on going anywhere, but I do wonder what the point of the 
chap calling himself "Big Pimpin" was in announcing yet another 
general-purpose group when there are too many already.

There probably isn't anything wrong with specialised groups, but 
creating more general ones helps no-one, and is more likely to make 
it harder to reach the "experts" that one needs at any given time.  
I know for a fact that there are very good people on all 
the "general" lists that I mentioned before, but they are not 
members of all of them, so I have to pick which list to use 
depending on who I know is in the audience, if you get my drift.

It would be nice to have a "one stop shop" numismatic mailing list, 
but realistically there isn't one.  The COINS list at uni.edu got 
pretty close when I first got on the web about ten years ago, and it 
still has a lot of good people who haven't got the Yahoogroups bug 
yet, even though the volume of traffic there has decreased 
dramatically in the past few years.

Thanks for the nice comments, all the same!

--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], mopar68.rm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Martin, please put your difficulties aside and just stick 
> right here!  You are an asset this groups can not afford to
> lose.
> 
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > Why do we need yet another general coin collectors' group?
> > Besides this one there is [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], and countless specialised ones.
> > The world of numismatic lists is too fragmented as it stands,
> > and even as it is I have difficulty working out which is the
> > most appropriate to send queries, news, etc. to.






------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 
Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar.
Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/f_SolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 

 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To reply to this message, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coinsclub/post?act=reply&messageNum=17284
    Please do not reply to this message via email. More information here:
    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/messages/messages-23.html

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:  
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coinsclub/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



Reply via email to