Digital BW, The Print

Thanks very much Allan.

I have made changes - this is the post I am adding to the list.

>in response to legitimate concerns and suggestions regarding this list, the settings of this group have been updated.
>
>There has been spamming on this list in the past and so now new members will have to be approved by me and their first posts will be moderated.
>
>Secondly, the message archive will be for members only.

thanks,
Richard

At 11:36 a.m. Thursday 4/06/2009, you wrote:


>On 04/06/2009 08:15, "Richard Smallfield" <<mailto:r.smallfield%40paradise.net.nz>r.smallfield@...>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi fellow photographers,
>> a couple of years ago, I tried to get a Yahoo! Group off the ground called
>> "The Business of Art Photography".
>> 
>> It didn't really get off the ground, but still shows over 200 subscribers.
>> 
>> The idea was to discuss issues related to generating sales for one's work and
>> making it more economically viable - how to get it 'out there' and selling
>> (which is very difficult, with a small market of photographic cognoscenti).
>> 
>> So I'm trying again.
>> 
>Hello Richard,
>
>Please allow me to comment. Your group looks interesting to me, as I would
>like to explore this avenue in more detail too. What inhibits me from
>signing are two things that immediately strike me.
>
>1) The message archive is public, meaning that non-members can access the
>messages and email addresses of folks who post and respond. Spammers love
>this, and also non-member are not encouraged to join as they can read the
>messages without doing so.
>2) I am put off by message headlines like:
>Sexy Models and Beauty Queens looking for Sugar Daddy!
>This makes it look like the list is being used by spammers, rightly or
>wrongly, but my inclination is to the former. I am disinclined to join lists
>where spammers participate and leave lists where spammers are allowed to and
>their messages left on the archives. (Of course, if this is not spam, but
>from a legitimate member that is another story, but the mentality behind
>such as subject line if it so is somewhat infantile.)
>
>The list is not being used as much as you want, in part, for the very
>reasons that makes it attractive and useful; the difficulty of finding
>approaches to selling photography, especially art or domestic display
>photography. This is not an easy issue to solve, and it is not going to
>generate a lot of ideas of how to do so on a continuing basis. Maybe mails
>need to be generated on actual experiences of photographers selling and
>making their work known, or something.
>
>Toodle-pip,
>
>Allan.
>> 
>> The URL for the group is:
>> <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/business-of-art-photography/>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/business-of-art-photography/ .
>
>

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