From: Norm Carpenter To: "'BalloonDeco'" Subject: FW: Sharing Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:27:17 -0800 -----Original Message----- From: Norm Carpenter Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 5:03 PM To: 'balloondeco-d-request@fooledya.com' Subject: Sharing Michael from AWESOME BALLOONS wrote: Thanks to all who replied ......It seems I have a few options. I saw only one reply to Michael's request for sizing templates other than the cardboard types. Apparently there is more to the answer than what has been posted on the list. This brings up an issue I wanted to raise and now I have an excuse. There seems to be a problem with people posting directly to the list. I've been invloved with the twisting balloon list since there was a twisting balloon list. I came over to the deco list late so maybe there is some history here that I don't understand. On the twisting list ideas come across the list all the time. Someone will post on a subject and 10 people will respond. Maybe 2 or 3 will be the same, but everyone learns about that subject. There is a sense of community amongst the twisters, a sharing of information for the purpose of improving the art of balloon twisting. I do not get that same sense from the deco list. Don't get me wrong, whenever I've had a request I have been treated to several emails that have more than answered by need and for this I am very grateful. But if those emails were shared on the list in an open fashion, I could search for them in the deco archive (did you know there was an archive of balloon deco posts at Balloon HQ?) and not need to bother anybody with perhaps a question that has been asked many times. I hope that we can grow as a community of balloon decorators by responding to these questions through our public forum of the deco list. It's going to make everyone's life a little easier. Norm the Balloonians