response 1 of 26:

Mar 25 18:22 UTC 1995

  Sounds neat...see item #15, on conference creation.  New conferences
are usually proposed in that item, but this works too, and you've already
completed the main step: proposing the conference here in co-op!  Next
it gets talked about for a couple days, then you say "I still want it,"
then it gets created.

response 3 of 26:

Mar 25 23:15 UTC 1995

I was thinking of only conferring.  I don't even know how to post .gifs
and probably will never do so.  

response 5 of 26:

Mar 26 16:05 UTC 1995

"photography" as a topic probably ought to cover about everything, just like
the music conf. covers all kinds of music.  I would expect items about
lenses, film, and also things in the area of "big photo exhibit at the
Art Museum, who wants to go?".  There isn't any content that is mandated
or restricted by the system itself (excepting the above-mentioned issue
of copyrighted material, and perhaps some technical restrictions (Grex's
limited capacity) that would preclude a lot of GIFs (imgage files) of
photographs).

response 7 of 26:

Mar 26 19:45 UTC 1995

Though I suspect that the focus will be on YOU behind the camera, with
not a lot of talking about your favorite photographers, or models...  :-)

response 9 of 26:

Mar 27 06:07 UTC 1995

Re #8:  (These are responses to an item, not items themselves)  I was speaking
in relative terms, and somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as well, (note smilie)  ;-}

response 11 of 26:

Mar 27 17:48 UTC 1995

  I kinda wondered what "ing" was, but not enough to find out.  I think
the drawback to that idea is that of photography enthusiasts, a lot more
are likely to join a photography conference than an ing conference.

response 13 of 26:

Mar 28 07:58 UTC 1995

Then enter a Photography item into agora - where it will get frontline
attention. If there is enough interest, a separate cf would have obvious
support. It could be linked to a new Photography cf before spring turns
to summer, to keep that thread. I'm not *opposing* it - I'm just
generally more in favor of encouraging active cfs.

response 15 of 26:

Mar 29 03:07 UTC 1995

Is there any harm done in creating a conference that *might* not be active?
The worse case is that no one will go there and it will be deleted.  Just
one item doesn't sound like it could do justice to all the different 
photography topics.  I'm all for a photography conference.

response 17 of 26:

Mar 29 08:12 UTC 1995

So far, conferences are never deleted. But I would support deleting really
inactive conferences, unless they are really databases, where people
can obtain information even if they don't enter any. A really *good*
info cf should never inspire anyone to respond!

response 19 of 26:

Mar 30 02:47 UTC 1995

I'll tentatively offer to fairwitness the Photo (or Photography) conference.
I have a letter in mail I haven't read yet, and it probably is from Remmers
telling me what is involved in fairwitnessing.  I'll get back to you.

response 21 of 26:

Mar 31 07:12 UTC 1995

Yeah.  And if you like, I can mail you some FWing stuff I got from 
M-net.  It was very helpful for me.

response 23 of 26:

Apr 6 13:28 UTC 1995

Wow -- interesting stuff!  I'd say some of it is M-Net specific, and
some of it is Steve Opal specific, but on the whole it's very thorough
and decently written.