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158 guests and 2 members ? . . . Hey, come on in.

Gene Olson - Monday, July 9, 2007 - 10:25pm

Like that ancient game show . . .
"What's my Line?"

Enter and sign in please.

Tell us about yourself, or tease us with your enigmatic masterpieces.

Ask about technique, describe it, help, cajole, even be brutally frank.

It isn't hard.

Don't want to post here?

Join the mail list, we are still off in the background.

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Just starting?

This is a great place to bounce around in,
has been for over a decade.

This was the first open forum metal working art discussion group on the internet.
The only way it stays vibrant is a constant flux of questions, images, and ideas posted.

Please join in the fun.

Gene


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The mail list is great for

webminster - Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 4:43pm

The mail list is great for chit-chat and a wonderful group of old friends. However, I do have to step in and say that unless you want to receive lots of off topic discussions and lots of mail, then you may want to instead stay an active member of the ArtMetal web site community.

Please don't get me wrong. The folks on the mail list are great! It's just that, if you are more interested in sharing the metal art you create, or want to get information on how-to's, then the artmetal.com web site is the place to be. Things here are more on topic, and everything gets archived so you can use the search facility to find information.  On the other hand, the mail list is not archived at all, and the discussions can sometimes go well beyond the scope of metal or art. But it's still fun for the old timers!

Just a warning and a desire for clarification... 


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Instead?

Gene Olson - Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 6:49pm

Instead?
maybe as well as.

Rich and I were talking about this.
There is an entire new and largely unrelated group that has sprung up on this forum. Same great sorts of people.

E. said that the mail list was, "a wonderful group of old friends."
That's right. Most of us have been there and have talked to each other for a long time. We know a lot amongst us but we have already asked and answered many of the questions out there. So we don't ask them often. That requires new blood, people testing their wings or old timers on new adventures that bring us down old roads from the other direction.

The list has been named the sandbox.
It's where we go to play.
If you come, bring your bucket, shovel and a sense of humor. Don't take anybody too serious.
As Frosty is prone to say,
"Welcome to one of the more active branches of the nut tree."

Mail list has a couple filter options and two subject tags to go with them that posters are requested to attach if their post is not about metal or art.

OT: or POL:
OT: are most often nearly insufferable PUN wars or bits of life experience, proud parents, grieving pet owners. Sometimes , not very often, it falls in the "I have no mouth and I must scream" explosion category.

POL: is for political opinions

You can set either or both filters to cull those messages out of your mail flow.

Most of us enjoy the water cooler OT: chat

a few of us turn off the POL: chatter.

And E.s right, archiving most of that would be a waste of bandwidth.

Not everybody there comes to the web site.

Try asking a metal question on the maillist. You may be surprised at the answers. (and if you liked the answer, save it and share it here and elsewhere, cause as Enrique said, there is no archive on the mail list.)

Gene Olson
Sculptor
Elk River, MN


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