To all Arachneans interested in the lace relay: I think we need to stop and ask ourselves the purpose of a round-the-world lace relay - is it to show that lace is continuously being made round the world over the 24 hour period in question or do we want interactive chat going on between participants as it happens? As there will be maybe 100 or more taking part it doesn't quite come in the same category of the e-meeting Margot hosted the other day. Personally I feel that we could end up spending all the time reading and responding to emails and not much time actually making lace. Would it work if: An email address was set up with e.g. hotmail or yahoo (I just broke off from typing this and set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] just in case it's decide to go down that route). At the appointed start time and place the first people (wherever/whoever they are) send an email to the address to say they have started making lace - no fancy message - may be just a straight message saying who they are, where in the world they are, what time of day it is where they are, and the type of lace they are doing. As each new person starts they too just send a similar email to indicate they are joining in. Then when someone stops making lace they send a basic message saying they are leaving the list. (If they wanted to they could log in and out again later). If the email subject line said 'starting' or 'stopping' it would be easy to see what the status was at any given time. Then either while it is happening or when it's all over the resulting list of emails can be analysed to see what went on. Using this method no one ends up with loads of emails to read or cluttering their in-box - they can be concentrating on making lace and catch up with who was making lace where and when at their leisure. If everyone who participates gets the password for the email account (I'm sure we could all be trusted with this) then they could log into the account at any time and view how things were going. Or maybe there is another way of acheiving this. I'm not really up with live chat rooms etc. Happy lacing Andrea, in a cold and dull Cambridge, UK.
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