I think that I will start my own blacklist and will not particpate in swaps or will withdraw from swaps if someone on my blacklist is part of the swap. Most of the culprits just do not communicate. Presumably they are too embarrased to do so. They get all enthused when a swap is announced and submit their name but do not check their other obligations, or more likey lose intertest in the swap over time. Even if you are ill, you should still be able to get a message out. The only exception is if the person drops dead from a heart attack. Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver, B. C. Canada
_____ From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Niclas Runarsson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:24 PM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: We Need a BLacklist Know the feeling. I just hosted a tiny fly swap here in Sweden. We were twelve tiers but it turned out to be ten flies... with five "reserves" who had seen the announcement too late, but were standing in line to jump in. One envelope came in with a big hole in it... flies lost. But as he was eager to tie new ones, we agreed to push the due date a week for him to be able to do his best and not his quickest. This gave the two no-shows another week too... and I called them both, since they didn't answer my PM's on the forum. The one I reached said that he had forgotten about them and was "going to mail them tonight... tomorrow at the latest". The PLANNED extra week passed and, due to factors preventing me to do "my stuff" with pictures and sorting, so did another week. I mailed them today, three weeks later than planned. The one I didn't reached is still not to be reached. The one who said he was going to mail his flies three weeks ago hasn't said a word since... and if they had just SAID that their flies weren't coming, it wouldn't have been a problem filling both places... having five people waiting with three weeks to tie. Preventing people from participating... and making the other tiers spending extra hours behind the vise (the size range on the flies tied in this swap was #24-32... not five minute-flies to quite a few, who before this swap hadn't tied smaller than #20). They will be reminded about this if they show interest in future swaps of mine. /Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
