OK, I just joined. Thanks for setting it up.



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From: whiskeytownavenues@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:whiskeytownavenues@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roald Hansen
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:46 AM
To: whiskeytownavenues@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [whiskeytownavenues] Not to interrupt, but I have a suggestion
for whiskeytownavenues



I'm in!
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From: "lindaray64" <Lindaray64@msn. <mailto:Lindaray64%40msn.com> com>
To: <whiskeytownavenues@ <mailto:whiskeytownavenues%40yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:48 AM
Subject: [whiskeytownavenues] Not to interrupt, but I have a suggestion for
whiskeytownavenues

> Looks like your traffic has slowed to a trickle, too, so I thought I'd
> share a suggestion I made to the nodepressionaltcountry board.
>
> Hope you'll think about it.
>
> Folks --
>
> It's been quiet in here for a while, now. Lots of us have gotten busy with

> other
> things. Older. That, too. And the great roots rock scare is long past,
> although
> a lot of the music that brought us to this place is still out there.
>
> We moved here to Yahoo in Sept. of 2001, as I recall. Just THINK for 60
> seconds
> about all the whopping changes we've seen together in computer technology,
> web-based communities, music distribution and promotion.
>
> Funny. What lasts is the communities, the physical ones. We still hang out

> in
> nightclubs with people we like, watching live music--maybe not as much as
> we did
> in 1995 or so. That's still my favorite thing about sxsw. And some of us
> still
> hang out here, on what's left of the NoDepressionAltCountry board.
>
> Lessee. So we started in Sept. 2000. In March, 2001, we had 1735 posts. It

> won't
> surprise you to know that in March, 2009, we had 109.
>
> One of the things that takes our time, my time, at least, is competing
> online
> communities. I saw some of you on MySpace, many more on Facebook, and I
> like
> keeping up with your doings out there.
>
> It seems that, now, we're even competing with ourselves--and that doesn't
> make
> sense to me. What I'm referring to is the project formerly known as No
> Depression Magazine, which grew out of this online community and now has
> become
> an online community once again.
>
> Don't know if you've been there, but it's very cool. It's got all kinds of

> fun
> things that our Yahoo group doesn't, slickest of which, to my mind, are
> these:
>
> --It's easy to toggle about among content by No Dep Mag regulars, fan
> blogs,
> other groups, music clips, etc. etc. By June, it will also be possible to
> toggle to the contents of every No Nepression issue ever printed. That
> archive
> work is going on right now.
> --When we want to post photos and files, we can do that right within the
> post.
> --We might get some new members, and even get some old ones back. (That
> happened
> when we moved from AOL, remember? We can hope.)
>
> On the downside, we have years of files here that don't have counterpart
> storage
> at the No Depression .ning site.
>
> Anyroad, I've taken the liberty of starting a nodepressionaltcountry
> group,
> there. By popular demand, I've made sure to use our original description,
> misspelled "practioners" and all. (I did leave in Jason and the Scorchers,

> but
> can easily be persuaded to remove it if there remain in here any hard line
> purists.)
>
> And I also made this Yahoo group our homepage, so it should be pretty easy

> to
> toggle back to any files or message you want to refer to, here.
>
> Right now my group request is awaiting approval, but I'm certain that
> won't be a
> problem. 'Claw and Kevin are already over there posting away. As is Peter,

> of
> course. I'm making a pledge to try to post at least one live review or
> record
> review a week, fwiw.
>
> So. . .tell me. What do you think?
>
> Go ahead and cruise the No Dep community site before you answer:
> http://community. <http://community.nodepression.com/> nodepression.com/
>
> Love all around,
>
> Linda
>
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