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The New Japan Photography Mailing List

Posted on September 22, 2004
The Japan Photography Mailing List spontaneously combusted yesterday when out of the blue the list maintainer Juergen Specht decided on his own it was no longer worth his trouble and deleted both the list of 250 plus members and more than a years worth of archived messages from his servers with no warning. Those thousands of messages accumulating a wealth of information, reviews, advice and general photography conversation between its members. Thanks Juergen, that was real swell of you. Jerk. Read what Jim, Kristen and Kurt had to say.

The list has been tentatively restarted at Yahoo! Groups so if want to join, or for that matter re-join the conversation send a mail to japanphoto-subscribe[at]yahoogroups[dot]com
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Something similar happened a few years ago within a local aquarium club I belong to. There was friction within the group leadership which came to a head, and one of the leaders struck out and took action of his own accord, without any due diligence. Our club has never recovered - the momentum of enthusiasm, activity, and passion was stopped in its tracks. People who would normally have tried to reign things in were left jaded and discouraged.

It was damaging on so many levels. The fallout after our experience might have led, in small part, to people losing interest in the hobby. Not to mention, relationships on a local level were very strained. I'm glad you guys are taking quick action for recovery.

It seems hobbyist/enthusiast circles are always chock-full of egos. It can be challenging to keep everyone on the same page.


::posted by: Erik at September 24, 2004 02:43 AM

soy colombiano estoy interesado mucho en trabajos de fotografia de varios paises sobre todo nuevas propuestas, me encantaria ver fotos de su pais.
gracias


::posted by: juan toro at December 8, 2004 12:39 AM

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www.shasha.saveyourpics.com
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thank you for your time
Alex Shasha


::posted by: Alex Shasha at April 11, 2006 08:06 PM






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