Re: Getting amateurs to visit DARK sites...

From: scurry (speriodthespiceorcomb_at_bresnan.net)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:37:18 -0600

BllFs6 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A previous post of mine got me thinking back to the good ole days...the 1980s..

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> But, gawd...it was like pulling hen's teeth to get even a few members to show
> up even ONCE! I'd be suprised if over that time period we got even a dozen
> folks to check the skies out EVEN once....it was probably more like 6 of em
> over a 3 year period.....
>
> Any other folks have this kinda of experience? Or were our club members just
> more homebound than usual?

I have a hunch. Your dark site wasn't equipment oriented, so who cared?
  If it was a 1.5 hour drive to an equipment demo in a mall parking lot
during a full moon, then you would've had something.
Just my $0.02

Shawn