Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Papercreters HAS FOUND many good volunteers.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

[papercreters] Re: Papercreters HAS FOUND many good volunteers.

Okay... please stop emailing me to volunteer. LOL.

Wow. This has been awesome.

Be careful what you ask for, Papercreters will pitch in and go to work!

We already have several veteran Papercreters members working through the old PapercreteNews messages. We won't be adding any more. We would just be bumping into each other too much. I've actually had to turn a few volunteers away. That sure felt strange.

I'm confident we will have all of the SPAM cleaned out of that old group rather quickly now.

Thanks to everyone that volunteered. It's a great feeling to have that kind of support within this group.

Tina, Evelyn, and Judith... Welcome to the moderator team.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "slurryguy" <slurryguy@...> wrote:
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> GREAT NEWS!!!
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> Several years ago a very very strange guy was reading up about papercrete in Yahoo Groups. One of the groups he found at that time was, "Papercrete News."
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercretenews/
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> That group had been abandoned for several years and had many THOUSANDS of SPAM messages filling it up. Dozens to Hundreds of additional SPAM message were getting dumped into that group every week.
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> HOWEVER! If you look back at the very first messages ever posted there, you will discover that the group once had a nice beginning. You will find old messages from Gordon Solberg and many more papercrete veterans. It's rather sad that old group got abandoned and overwhelmed with SPAM. There was a promising beginning that simply got BURIED.
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> Over the years I have attempted many things to get that group cleaned up. I actually contacted the Solbergs in hope that they could help me get a phone number for "Josh" who was listed as group owner. I made repeated attempts to contact the group owner. I contacted Yahoo. I got nowhere.
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> Of course, we all know what happened. Papercreters was born, and here we are exchanging papercrete information again, SPAM FREE!
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> Still... there were thousands of old messages that had been lost in that pile of spam and were being ignored. There is worthwhile information there that nobody wanted to go near because the SPAM manure stink was too potent! It was sad.
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> However... PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF!!!
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> This week Yahoo Tech Support finally granted my request and appointed me as Moderator of the old Papercrete News Yahoo Group!!!
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> HORRAAAAAAAYYYYYYY. Strike another big blow against SPAM!
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> HORRAAAAAAYYYYYY. There are several thousand very old messages dating back to March of 2000 that are actually about papercrete we are attempting to rescue!
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> It's all there. Anyone can go read them. Just one problem... that group got buried. It had over 21,000 messages earlier this week. Several of the Papercreters Moderators have been attacking the old SPAM on that group this week and we have whittled the mess down to under 5000 messages. Yes... there was that much SPAM.
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> Now the work is getting more detailed. The newest messages were all spam because the group had been abandoned. Now we've gotten back to 2003 and we are finding a few messages about papercrete.
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> DO YOU WANT TO HELP US CLEAN IT UP???
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> Our current Papercretes moderators only have so much time.
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> I'm looking for a couple of volunteers. Who here wants to go back and read every single old message on Papercrete News? I'm betting that there are several of our members that would actually enjoy reading each old message and learning from it.
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> While you are reading the old messages, who here would be willing to DELETE the SPAM message that you find as you read the old stuff?
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> If you are interested in helping clean the manure out of the old Papercrete News messages, please contact me.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> slurryguy
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