JANUARY  learning to feel at home  1999          
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.. . I believe we have a great thing going for us in Scribble as it is. This would not necessarily be enhanced by trying to enter a niche which is in happy operation already . .
           
 
THE INTERNATIONAL ECHO
There was some talk of Scribble being sent out internationally through FidoNet. I've thought a lot about the idea, but feel that since there is, already, an Inter National Poetry Echo in which some of us are involved, that we could well be sacrificing our very good sense of community, for a wider audience which is already available to some of us. 

It might be appropriate at this point to mention that the Co-Moderator of what we know as Poetry Workshop, has recently bid farewell. I understand that she is on her way to the South Island. 
Christine Schiff was moderator of this Echo for years. We've loved her poetry and appreciated her outstanding ability to keep the conversational and poetic bubble bouncing. I found her to be an inspiration, and will surely miss her.

The International Poetry Echo has a Web Page which you might be interested in visiting, if you have InterNet Access. It is to be found at http://www.geocities.com/athens/2093 I noticed poetry by Terry Bowden last time I was there, very nicely hosted indeed. 

SCRIBBLE COMMUNITY: THE NEXT STEP
It seems to me that we have developed over the years to a strong sense of community. We've been relaxed enough to keep contact with those who can't post directly in the echo. For example: Anamaea has continued to post her work here, for your comments and responses, through me. TIC would never have posted at all if it weren't for the good offices of Bob King. Granted these things it seems to me that the obvious next step is to promote a parallel development in both the echo and the net. 

 I believe we have a great thing going for us in Scribble as it is. This would not necessarily be enhanced by trying to enter a niche which is in happy operation already.

Terry's posting of our statistics this morning bears out this theory.
I quote him below:

"List of NZ Echoes with message traffic volumes for Jan 99
as received at IBM BBS 772/20

"Some of these also go internationally.

A R E A   R E P O R T

       Msgs    Msgs      %     Max    Min    Msgs
          In       /Day  Traf    /Day   /Day     Out      Area Name

        190      6.1   0.3%      20      0    1127    SCRIBBLE 
         173      5.6   0.3%      17       0    1612     NZ_BUYSELL
           98      3.2   0.1%      11       0      371     NZ_GAMES
           96      3.1   0.1%      10       0      449     NZ_RELIGION
           77      2.5   0.1%      12       0      284     SWE-NZ
           70      2.3   0.1%        9       0      197     NZGENSOFT
(et al)

 

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