My self I like the VFB and have quit doing much comments due to compliants about to much chatter. I really like the swaps and have mistered some myself.
Jerry McKaughan,President Caddis Fly Fishing Club P. O. Box 9104 Russellville, AR 72811 www.caddisflyfishers.org > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:56:52 -0500 > From: ray...@earthlink.net > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Subject: [VFB] VFB Is the VFB slowly dying? Your idea to revitalize VFB > > TO: VFB MEMBERS > FROM: VFB LIST MANAGERS: > JIMMY D. MOORE, ALLAN FISH, SALTY DAN > > For several months, I and several other VFB members have felt that > our Beloved VFB is slowly dying. There are several indicators that > point to the demise of the VFB. (1.) From an alltime high of 600+ > members just a few years ago to the current 220 VFB members. Of the > 220 members, (2.) I recognize only 41 names/email addresses. I've been > on the list for nearly 10 years and pretty well knew all the active > members. I had over 70 VFB members on my Joke for the Day list. > > (3.) There's very few posts each day, not at all like the 15 to 20 we > used to have, back in the days when some would complain about the VFB > clogging their In-box. (4.) When a question was posed to the list, you > could always count on 5 - 10 good sound answers for your problem. Nowadays > very few questions get answered. > > We had some mighty good threads, like spine vs spline, furled vs mono > leaders, and on and on. And yes, there was a lot of (5.)good natured > "Banter'. People now seem to be afraid to kid one another for fear of > being taken the wrong way. > > What I'm getting at is for VFB members to e-mail me off list with your > suggestions of how to "jump start" the VFB and get'er running at full > throttle again. I'll take your suggestions and incorporate them into > an answer back to you. All suggestions will be listed in my e-mail > answer to the group. I don't want the VFB to die. It would definitely > put a big hole in things I love most. > > Before I forget it, if you'll look at the bottom of each VFB post you'll > notice that LinesEnd fly shop is the sponsor of the VFB e-mail list. We > have Byard Miller, list owner to thank for keeping the VFB available. > One last thing. The Virtual Flybox Website no longer exists. It got to > the point that Byard just didn't have the time to devote to keeping it > current. > > Best Personal Regards, > > JIMMY D, <ray...@earthlink.net> > > > -- > 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 -- 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
