Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Nelson [mailto:pnweb@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:52 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Join us at MEDIAPHOTO Yahoo Group
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Christer
> Rosewelll <christerart@m...> wrote:
> > In order to better serve it's members it is now moving off Yahoo
> and in
> > order to do so there is a small fee - $25 for the first year if you
> > join before 2005. After that is $50/year. Students/assistants can
> join
> > for half that fee. This huge (I am ironic here) sum is obviously
> too
> > much for some people - how that can be as for a student/assistant
> the
> > first year cost comes to $0.034/day - that's right - 3.4 cents per
> day!
>
> You should be writing ad copy for Popeil.
>
> That's right friends, and if you act today we'll throw in this free -
> FREE - sensor blower - normally a $24.95 value - but just to get you
> to TRY our exciting new Digi-Store combination digital storage and
> inkjet printing assistant, fully automatic and factory equipped to be
> compatible with all major operating systems.  Imagine impressing your
> rich know-it-all photographer friends when they SEE what this little
> unit can do.   That's right folks, DIAL from gamma to color to get
> picture perfect photo-quality inkjet prints EVERY time!    But wait,
> there's more!!   What would you expect to pay for this genuine
> imitation Naugahyde carrying case with attached business card pockets
> containing an ACTUAL membership in the Editorial Photographers
> association?  100 dollars?   50 dollars?  Nope.  A mere TWENTY FIVE
> dollars.   Twenty Five smackeroos!  That's only 6.8 cents a day -
> less than the cost of drycleaning your Christmas ties.  So how can
> you afford not to join?  Do the names Joel Meyerowitz, Lois
> Greenfield, Ansel Adams, David Alan Harvey or Herb Ritts ring a
> bell?   They are just SOME of the great photographers whose work you
> can discuss if you are a member of EP.    So don't wait, act
> TODAY.    This exciting offer is only good until midnight tonight.
> Operators are standing by!
>
>
> (offer not good after curfew in Sectors R or N)

Not to forget that EP from very early on was really designed as a career and
product boosting platform for a small number of photographers.

> you afford not to join?  Do the names Joel Meyerowitz, Lois
> Greenfield, Ansel Adams, David Alan Harvey or Herb Ritts ring a
> bell?

Of course you won't find any such really successful photographers (the live
ones anyway) on EP

I've been on the EP list from pretty soon after it first started. It has
always had a very high noise to content ratio (despite, or perhaps because
of fairly heavy handed moderation) and you could probably condense the
useful content down to an FAQ of 15 or 20 simple topics (interspersed by ads
for Photokit or the latest paying seminar by one of the Board Members). For
a long time now I just got the digest, would skim through it and rarely find
anything of worth or interest. It could be fun to natter on, but I have
never found it a seriously useful tool, and as an organisation, compared to
the likes of ASMP etc, pretty toothless. Paying $25.00/$50.00 isn't worth it
for me for the value of information I get from it. I'd rather spend the
money on a subscription to Blindspot (or even PDN)

But I love your Ad copy above!

tim a