CompuServe Thread

#Rock Clubs On-Line

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#172100From: William W. BesseMar 5, 1995 1:04 PM
Hi, I do not know if you looked over the responses to my posting for club e-mail addresses but it was not really startling. In all there were five responses (including my own): Bill – MSSC You and/or Rod – FMS Guy Hammer – FM, NW Chapter Russ Madson – American Opal Society Nathan A. Schachtman – Delaware Valley Earth Science Society I do not think the response is sufficient to continue the project at this end. What do you think? Suggestion? I will CIS mail my MSSC info to Sharon Shea for her listing though. Maybe with her wider audience can get somewhere. I too have been trying to get e-mail addresses into our MSSC Roster. I think I have succeeded and they will be in this years'. I will know soon. Later – Bill
#172197From: Doug MitchellMar 5, 1995 8:41 PM
Hi, Bill– Probably the big factor in expanding our knowledge of on-line club contacts would come from convincing the AFMS and the regional federations to ask for such with snail-mail contact info. It would keep people aware of the question, and watching the results would show us when large numbers of contacts are on-line. The rate of growth of the on-line rockhound presence seems to be accelerating, thus it seems only a matter of time before we have contacts in most clubs. –Doug
#172244From: Russ MadsenMar 5, 1995 11:06 PM
fwiw Bill… Being the newsletter editor for the American Opal Society I have the opportunity to see a few reciprocal club bulletins and have noticed a couple locally make refernce to accessing the Internet and emailing. I think Doug's suggestion of contacting the AFMS and getting them to work with the various state-level Federations may prove fruitful. -Russ PS I'm purposely not volunteering to help with your task, I'm buried already, sorry. I do think the idea has merit though.