Re: The future of the Yahoo Blender Group?

Although I am just a quiet onlooker who try to learn tips on blender
from this group. I very much wish that this group will be keep alive.
I am sure there is a lot of person like me just here to learn. Even
though we are the quieter group :)


--- 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
>