Re: The future of the Yahoo Blender Group?

I joined this group some months ago, when I was "in to" learning 
Blender, because I wanted to illustrate my ancestral-tree in 3D, but 
this idea of mine has been put on hold, so to speak, for a while (I 
can´t say for how long, months, years...? other interests have come 
into the forefront for now...) One solution to not let the 
group "die" could perhaps be to organize "activity" in it to say, 
Saturday´s...? or any one day a week? Once a fortnight? On the other 
hand, there´s a J. Bond movie titled "Live and let die", so death of 
a group perhaps sometimes is inevitable...?

                                         Michael.

--- In [email protected], "ingiebee1" <ingiebee@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.  First off, I would like to thank everyone for being a
> part of this group, it's been so much help for so many in the past. 
> Unfortunately, I feel it's become rather obsolete.  Worse still, it
> has so many spammer members, that the new post check has not been 
kept
> up with.  I don't see too much legitimate activity (though some is,
> and even just now, I may have accidentally deleted a good post (so
> sorry!)) So I'm wondering if it's time to let this group die a
> peaceful death?  At the time I took it over, it was still quite
> active, but not so much anymore.  There are other very helpful 
groups
> that are far more active, and I myself have been inundated with life
> (3 kids keep me very busy!) so that I can't even answer questions
> anymore! 
> 
> So if anyone is still out there :)  Please let me know how you feel
> about my closing this group down??  After I close it, I'm sure 
someone
> could reopen it afresh or something like it.  If it's wanted, a
> rebirth is probably in order at this point.  It's such a stagnating
> group right now.
> 
> I do think people found it originally to be a friendly place for 
utter
> newbies to ask all their "stupid" questions and feel comfortable 
doing
> so.  It would be nice to have that around again, but I think this
> group has had it's usefulness in the past and desperately needs
> refreshing.
> 
> Again, thanks so much for being here!  I'll wait a week to see if I
> hear back from people, in case someone has a better idea.  I can't 
see
> how to reset the way this group accepts new members, and it's very
> contaminated with spammers which makes it very hard to manage.  I
> think a complete shut down and rebuilding by an active 
blenderhead :)
>  would be a great thing!
> 
> Thanks, Ingie
>