Claire A wrote: > Why not just recommend that the poster (and societies) post to > Gen-Events, a RW list specifically for noting events, whether > conferences or reunions. All subscribed are interested in hearing > about events anywhere in the world. And I'm aware that the > Cumberland Gap event is pretty big, with people traveling long > distances to participate--I know someone who came from Europe last > year to exhibit. Maybe Gen-Events should be publicized more, so it > gets more subscribers (I have no idea how many are subscribed, > though I am myself), but the right forum for this kind of post DOES > already exist on RW.. As do a great many other lists that are relevant to particular subjects, such as the Roll Call and Strays lists, most of which, like Gen-Events, have never been heard of. The result is they are are virtually like our ancestors - dead. Gen-Events is a new one on me. How to publicise them? By doing the very thing this thread is all about - posting to dozens of lists that may or may not be appropriate. . This Jamboree that's getting some hot under the collar sounds interesting and I wish I could attend. I didn't know about it before, so thank you to the person who first raised it and to the person who posted the link to the Jamboree's site. It's now been bookmarked and set to alert me when there's an update to the site. I will allow general interest subjects on my list because they often can and do affect the members of the list. On the matter of receiving dozens sof copies of the same message, the use of filters solves that problem - as it does for threads that go on and on to the point of disappearing up their own exhaust! <G> -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk