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Grex Photography Item 34: Let's kill this conference
Entered by mcpoz on Fri Apr 12 01:23:23 UTC 1996:

Well, this is a dead conference.  Shall we kill it officially?

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by omni on Fri Apr 12 04:21:26 1996:

 No. 

 Conferences can lay dormant for a while, and that's perfectly normal.
There is a lot of information here, and I have learned a lot, so I vote to
keep it going. Don't get so down on yourself Marc, you're doing a great job!

#2 of 14 by rcurl on Fri Apr 12 21:22:51 1996:

I agree with omni. The problem isn't with the conference - it is with the
Grex clientele! Get your phtography buddies to come here and conference
about it. An additional problem is that Grex does not "advertise" its
conferences at all well to most users. You have to know the command-line
"help conferences" to find what there as - and I suspect most users have
forgotten that, or never "learned" it when they first logged in.  The Menu
shell doesn't help except to tell you to go to bbs and do a "help
conferences". The Lynx shell is a little betters, as you can find a list -
a few links down the chain. Maybe this should be brought up in Coop (again)?

#3 of 14 by rickyb on Fri Apr 12 21:35:39 1996:

ditto

#4 of 14 by mcpoz on Fri Apr 12 22:45:26 1996:

Great - we will keep it alive.  I was starting to think it was sort of a 
"vanity press" thing.  I hope to get a lot of dialog between amateurs and
serious amateurs, with pro's welcome if they show up.  I also would be in
favor of going to some location for a shoot.

#5 of 14 by omni on Sat Apr 13 04:46:51 1996:

 How about West Virginia? It's the most photogenic place I can think of. ;)

#6 of 14 by mcpoz on Sat Apr 13 11:43:09 1996:

It is entirely possible - I have a van!

#7 of 14 by scott on Sun Apr 14 15:03:20 1996:

Ack, don't kill it!  At worst it becomes a reference book.

#8 of 14 by bruin on Sun Apr 14 15:07:57 1996:

This is the best way to generate new interest in a conference -- the FW
announcing his/her plans to kill it.

#9 of 14 by mcpoz on Mon Apr 15 00:41:34 1996:

Well, it worked . . . . . .

#10 of 14 by denise on Mon May 27 00:41:54 1996:

Well hey, I'm glad that this conference is still here!!  I've been around grex
on and off since its beginning, but because of computer related
problems over the years, I haven' always been able to get on.  But 
now that I'm back, I'll be checiking in from time to time!


As for photoshoot locations, I live in NC; if any of you are
down my way, let me know!

#11 of 14 by mcpoz on Mon May 27 01:42:01 1996:

Each year, my brother and I take a huge road trip for the sole purpose
(excuse) of photography.  Last year, we put on about 9000 miles between here,
Utah, Nevada, Calif. Ariz. NM, and Tx.  We have not decided our trip this
year, but it looks like Utah and Ariz are calling us.

I bought topographical detail atlases of both states great photographic aid!

NC is a good destination, too.

#12 of 14 by denise on Tue May 28 01:21:19 1996:

Marc, one nice thing about the NC area is that from where I live [Raleigh/
durham area], I'm only a couple hours from the mountains or the ocean 
[may be more, depending on WHERE in the mountains or th coast ya want to
go...]

#13 of 14 by eprom on Sun Apr 11 03:52:09 2004:

what ever happened to mcpoz?

#14 of 14 by papa on Wed Jun 20 12:59:03 2018:

resp:13 The Photography conference killed him officially.

Long Live Cybernetic Immortality!

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