Hello all, Some of you may remember how the birthday lists started many years ago. Someone found an online site that would send e-cards to others as a support for a charity, so many of us sent in our names and birthdays so as to use the site to raise funds for the TMA. Not surprisingly, the site died after a while. A girl on the TMIC named Carrie and I had accumulated the birthday names and lists, and after she left the list, I continued to send them out once a month.
I've decided to stop doing so, for a number of reasons. 1) Not many people are here any more. Many are on Facebook and it is easy to send birthday greetings there. 2) I don't think many (if any) people use the birthday list to send individual greetings to anyone on it. (A few of you have faithfully sent happy birthdays on TMIC to those celebrating each month as a whole, and I have appreciated that.) 3) Since all mail that goes through the TMIC is archived online, I have wondered if it is a problem to have lists of names and e-mails there, if that increases anyone's spam content. 4) I have been sending out individual birthday greetings to everyone on the list, and more and more of them are returned to me because the address is no longer active. 5) For those who are no longer on the TMIC, I don't know if they welcome the birthday greetings or if they don't want me to "bug" them any more. So for all of those reasons, plus the amount of time involved, I have decided to stop sending the birthday lists out each month. I've just finished updating it with the latest information I have - if anyone else wants to take it over, I'll be happy to send you the list. I'm still here on the TMIC and plan to continue to be. I wish all of you a very happy and healthy 2014. Love, Barbara H.
