RE: pure silver list

Did you start it shortly after the closing by Tim? I dropped out for a while
and didn't see any of that or don't recall it.

I don't remember ugly threads on Pure Silver? Maybe just not comparable to
here ; )

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryuji Suzuki [mailto:rs@silvergrain.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:21 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: Re: pure silver list
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:39:45 -0700, "Richard Knoppow"
> <dickburk@ix.netcom.com> said:
>
> > Ryuji Suzuki started another list, the Silver Grain list,
> > especially for those experimenting with silver-gelatin
> emulsion
> > making. I don't know if this list is still active but
> information
> > is on Ryuji's web site at http://www.silvergrain.org.
>
> Richard, this description is not accurate. There are two
> versions of
> pure-
> silver, as a result of dissipating name calling and personal
> attacks
> that occured soon after Tim D's announcement. Most of the ugly
> threads
> moved onto the freelist-based version of pure-silver, then lead
> by Jim
> Brick. Some people brought up good arguments favoring an
> independent
> server to manage the mailing list, rather than using freelist
> service,
> but since no one took the effort to implement this proposal, I
> started
> one of the two current pure-silver lists on my server. In
> short, there
> are two pure-silver lists running concurrently.
>
> Incidentally, I used to have a mailing list called silvergrain
> on my
> server, but it was before Tim D stopped his pure-silver. The
> list was
> dropped partly because of low level of interest in emulsion
> making, and
> partly because I think the topics related to making silver-
> gelatin
> emulsions fall in the coverage of this alt-process group.
Received on 06/20/06-06:00:58 PM Z