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Subject: Re: [RML] Show sanctioning SPAM
Author: MIME:jazep at www.peter.unmack.net at INTERNET-MAIL
Date: 1/31/98 6:26 PM
Frex Old Man
Ah, yes! Those were the Good Old Days, indeed. ;) Jason is too darn
polite and unobtrusive for my tastes. <g>
Where *does* the time go?
Big Barra <><
PS: Kidding, Jason. ;)
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 andrew.boyd at dfat.gov.au wrote:
>
>
> Well someone has to stir the buggers up, all this niceness is no good for
> traffic levels ;)
>
> (puts on big cap and braces)
>
> I can remember back in the good old days, when the list was but a pup, and we
> used to have regularly scheduled flamewars just to keep the list up to it's
> minimum megabyte of plain text a month ;)
>
> By Gum, young people these days don't know what a flamewar is. When I were
youn g
> we used to beat computer over t'monitor with cricket bat just to warm t'bugger
> up, and log in and download 150 abusive messages a day, and sit there for a
> couple of hours and write warnings to all t'culprits, threaten 'em with death
> and excommunication if they erred again, and send t'boys round if they did!
> Moderaptors they called us then, and by Gum we were, moderators with big
teeth!
> :)
>
> Young people these days just won't believe yer... ;)
>
> Regards, Andrew
>
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> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [RML] Show sanctioning
> Author: MIME:merlin at orac.net.au at INTERNET-MAIL
> Date: 1/29/98 3:02 PM
>
>
> I can just see the factional groups fighting now :)
>
> Cheers
> Merlin
>
> At 13:22 29/01/98 +1000, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > Seeing as this has made the list, original request/reply/request for
> further
> >information, can someone fill the rest of us in on what "show sanctioning"
> is?
> >My best guess is that Jim wants to have a Rainbowfish class in his local
> >Aquarium Society show and wants it to be "official", is this correct? Cary
> >replied so my next guess is that it is an RSG "sanctioning" he was after.
> >
> >Is there a national RSG show program in place in the USA? Are regional show
> >entrants allocated points towards national awards, or is the sanctioning
> limited
> >to a nod and a tick given to the show rules/judging?
> >
> >The reason I ask, aside from the perpetual problem of trying to keep up with
> >what is happening in the USA (based on it's alleged place as the centre of
> the
> >universe and hence there being much assumed knowledge not readily
> accessible to
> >outsiders ;)) is sheer curiosity - perhaps a national Rainbowfish showing
> scheme
> >is something that ANGFA(National) or the individual regional groups might
> need
> >to look at if showing fish ever becomes as popular here as in the USA. Or
> have
> >the BFAS Standards expanded to include rainbows? :)
> >
> >Regards, Andrew
> >
> >
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> >Subject: Re: [RML] Show sanctioning
> >Author: MIME:jcapelle at gte.net at INTERNET-MAIL
> >Date: 1/29/98 12:40 PM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >caryho at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> >> In The Dawn of the Third Age "James E. Capelle" <jcapelle at gte.net>
> >> woke me from my contemplation by writing:
> >>
> >> >I know I asked last year too late, and I am almost too late this year.
> >> >Who handles show sanctioning of Rainbowfish? One of the things I
> >> >remember from last year they had to be shown in a planted tank, is that
> >> >a true and hard rule? Tampa Bay(Florida, USA) Aquarium Society is
> >> >holding Their show April 4 & 5 at the Florida Aquarium(in Tampa, FL)
> >> >this year. If I am too late I'll apply the fee to next year's show
> >> >(couldn't be too late a year early). JiM C.
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >How can I forward something when I am trying to get that information also?
> >I see your request and raise and raise the deal by sending the money when
> >one tells how much to send. JiM C.
> >
> >> If you can forward a copy of the rules and the sanctioning fee
> >> to, we can get things going.
> >> Send to
> >> RSG Sanctioning
> >> c/o Cary Hostrawser
> >> 12920 Zachary Circle
> >> Dayton, MN 55327
> >>
> >> Cary Hostrawser
> >>
> >> My Rainbowfish Home Page
> >> http://pw2.netcom.com/~caryho/home.html
> >>
> >> Rainbowfish Study Group Web Page
> >> http://home.stlnet.com/~gwlange/rainbowfish.index.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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