Ryan's Posts

From: Jill Swindler (jswindler0@msn.com) | Date: 2003-03-26 22:44:22 UTC-08:00

Ryan, I just had to tell you that your posts are always so amusing! And keep up the encouraging someone to make a Pacific NW board. I know I'd visit!

Jill aka Lillbit

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Re: Ryan's Posts

From: rscarpen (RiskyNil@hotmail.com) | Date: 2003-03-27 07:48:33 UTC

> Ryan, I just had to tell you that your posts are always so amusing!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them! =)

> And keep up the encouraging someone to make a Pacific NW board. I
> know I'd visit!

Out of curiosity, I just did a search of Yahoo Groups for any board
with "Letterbox" in the title, and found the following boards:

letterbox-oki (Ohio Kentucky and Indiana Letterboxing)
letterbox-ak
letterbox-ct
letterbox-fl
letterbox-ky
letterbox-me
letterbox-vt
letterbox-co
letterbox-al
letterbox-ca
letterbox-mo
letterbox-nc
letterbox-oh
letterbox-md
letterbox-ma
letterbox-ny
letterbox-ut
letterbox-wa
letterbox-vw
letterbox-technical (whatever that means)
letterbox_travellers
letterboxing-curious
Mischief_wa_lb (Looks like Mischief already has a
"Master of Her Domain" place on the web! =)

There's a few others that popped up about rock bands and places to
meet pen-pals and such, but I've only listed the ones that I think
really do have something to do with our form of letterboxing. =)

It looks like most of those groups have VERY little activity--less
than five members and all the posts are junk mail from the couple
I've looked at.

Anyhow.... Food for thought. =)

-- Ryan

Re: [LbNA] other lists (was Re: Ryan's Posts)

From: Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) | Date: 2003-03-27 06:06:27 UTC-05:00

> Out of curiosity, I just did a search of Yahoo Groups for any board
> with "Letterbox" in the title, and found the following boards:

> letterbox-ak
> letterbox-ct
[...]

These are ancient, and were set up when the original web site was set
up. In practice, no one thought they were a good idea, or at least
very few people signed up for them and used them at the time. Of course,
in those days, there were about 20 people or so total in Amercian
letterboxing. I believe Mitch was the owner of some of them, and various
people around the country are the owners of the rest of them, people who
may no longer be active. I was the owner of the -pa one, but gave that
over to someone else years ago.

> letterbox-technical (whatever that means)

This was the old webmaster list that was open to anyone who wanted to
contribute technical ideas to developing the website. For historical
reasons, this fell into disuse. Its prolly still open, and has a
handful of boring messages, or perhaps its active (yahoo generally
deletes groups after some period of inactivity, so either these groups
are getting spam, or someone is keeping them alive). I believe Mitch
is the owner of this one as well.

Cheers