Re: pure silver list

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@silvergrain.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:20 PM
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.

   Thank you for the clarification.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com