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J. Bennie
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> Here these days ?
We'll see if this comes through.
Jim, No. 44, Vancouver
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Mudge
> "Mudge" wrote:
>> Here these days ?
>
> We'll see if this comes through.
J. Bennie
> It did - but you're the only one - see all that dust - terrible innit ?
My ISP killed its news server months ago so I haven't been posting anywhere.
Frankly, Usenet's pretty well obsolete, and this group never had a lot of
traffic at the best of time.
Just got back from a meeting where our incoming J.D. has announced he's
moving out of the jurisdiction within the year. We've lost at least two
officers a year in each of the last several years for that same reason.
Mudge
> "Mudge" wrote:
>
> My ISP killed its news server months ago so I haven't been posting
> anywhere. Frankly, Usenet's pretty well obsolete, and this group never
> had a lot of traffic at the best of time.
>
> Just got back from a meeting where our incoming J.D. has announced he's
> moving out of the jurisdiction within the year. We've lost at least two
> officers a year in each of the last several years for that same reason.
was canned in the fall of last year so I opted to buy the service
offered by the folks that wrote my newsreader.
There isn't much traffic on some of the groups and alt.freemasonry has
about 150 posts per day all from kooks and anti's - but I like to
retain contact with some of the folks I have been chatting (in about 20
groups) with for some years now - really good e-pals.
I was sorry to hear about Jim Cox' passing a while ago - he was a real
mate and one of the co-founders of our Alberta Masonic Foundation !
J. Bennie
> There isn't much traffic on some of the groups and alt.freemasonry has
> about 150 posts per day all from kooks and anti's - but I like to retain
> contact with some of the folks I have been chatting (in about 20 groups)
> with for some years now - really good e-pals.
Well, kooks and antis are our best advertising, as Masons are the
anti-thesis of those hateful, paranoid people. But Usenet really has had its
day and I don't think an awful lot of people read it. Even s.o.f. is devoid
of traffic. You've got Facebook and Twitter now. A few years from now, it'll
be something else. And I remember when BBSs were such a marvel.
> I was sorry to hear about Jim Cox' passing a while ago - he was a real
> mate and one of the co-founders of our Alberta Masonic Foundation !
Didn't know Jim. Haven't been to Alberta for over 20 years. Attended a
meeting in the nice little hall in Banff. But we keep losing members to
Alberta. Our J.D. a year ago, our Treasurer over the summer and our incoming
J.D. will be going to the Peace Country but most of his work will be in
Alberta.
Mudge
On 2011-09-10 22:33:19 -0600, J. Bennie said:
Didn't know Jim. Haven't been to Alberta for over 20 years. Attended a meeting in the nice little hall in Banff. But we keep losing members to Alberta. Our J.D. a year ago, our Treasurer over the summer and our incoming J.D. will be going to the Peace Country but most of his work will be in Alberta.
Sorry, I forgot you were on the mainland - Jim was a member in Victoria but was a PM from Glenbow 184 here.
The Banff Lodge Hall is still going strong as is the Lodge - we have lost a few Lodges here over the past several years but the loss seems to have slowed lately and some of the Lodges are growing ever so slowly.
Sadly, I don't see much enthusiam among the new members and despite a small influx of younger guys the Lodges are poorly attended.
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J. Bennie
"Mudge" <Nos...@never.ever> wrote in message
> Sadly, I don't see much enthusiam among the new members and despite a
> small
> influx of younger guys the Lodges are poorly attended.
It seems to vary from Lodge to Lodge. One Lodge I'm in has a bunch of young
guys who are pretty enthusiastic. But they're still not quite settled down
in life. It could be a case like my other Lodge where they move out of town
because that's where their careers take them. I've lost track of how many
officers have moved in the last few years, including our W.M. one year who
missed virtually his whole term.
Jim, No. 44, Vancouver.