Right those were the good old days! I have talked to many of the Masters that ere originally excited about the list and usually the story is that they were insulted or found the list tedious. I tend to have a high tolerance of inexperience but spend most of my time lurking.



> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:20:43 -0500
> From: <1@msfencing.org>
> Subject: Where have all the original members gone?
>
> Dear List,
>
> Kim and I were discussing off list how a number of the original members of
> this list have either dropped off the list or resigned themselves to
> inactive status.
>
> Back between 1998 and 2000 there were a number of "knowledgeable and
> influential people" who use to make some very intelligent and/or stimulating
> posts on this list, whom we rarely if ever hear from anymore. I consider
> this to be unfortunate.
>
> Last night I was reading through some of this lists' earliest posts and
> noticed a lot of old familiar names which I don't see anymore: Masters
> Martinez, Master Crown, Master Evangelista, Master Lurz, Master Andrea Lupo
> Sinclair, Zebee Johnstone, David Z Laloum, Chris Umbs, Bryan J. Maloney,
> John Blair Moore, David Whippler (David Achilles), Patrick Peritore,
> Christian Darce, Jared Kirby, Andy Baiman, Edgar de La vega, Steve Hicks,
> Ken Mondschein, Mark Rector, Milo Thurston, Joshua Kronengold, Bob Lyle,
> William Black, Tristantrout, Brian D Shenck.
>
> And even others such as Master Sullins, Master Hayes, and Stephen Hand don't
> seem to post quite as much as they did in the early days of the list.
>
> Why do y'all think some of these folks have dropped off of the list and why
> do y'all think we don't hear from the others as much as we did in the
> earlier years of this list?
>
> Also I noticed last night that of this lists 7552 posts a whopping 5243 were
> made between June 25, 1998 and December 3, 2000 (in the first two and a half
> years of this list), whereas we have only had some 2243 posts in the last
> five years. Could there be a connection here?
>
> Blessings,
> Rez Johnson
>
> "Standing guard on old, forgotten roads, that no one travels anymore."
> The Fencing Master, by Arturo Perez
>
> Rez Johnson, M d'A
> Headmaster: Mississippi Academy of Arms
> President: United States Traditional Fencing Association
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> Certified Fencing Master Apprentice: (USTFA, USFCA)
> Teaching Classical Fencing and Historical Swordsmanship since 1980
> Modern Sport Fencing Coach from 1980 - 2002
>
> Mississippi Academy of Arms
> P.O. Box 955
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>
> E-Mail: 1@MSFencing.org
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