[TheForge] Mass Resignations?

[G. Watts]

Ries,

I've always enjoyed your contributions to this list over the decades, 
though I've been mostly an abject lurker. Radiant heat over chopping 
wood seems like a nice transition for you. Congratulations on your 
retirement! I wish you all the best.

George


On 2/2/2025 4:04 AM, Ries Niemi wrote:
> I am seriously considering installing a propane radiant heating system in the shop, even though as of Jan 1 I am officially “retired”, which means no more biz license, legal employees, and corporate tax returns.
> But my shop has been wood heat for 25 years, and I find chopping firewood less and less exciting.
>
>
> Ries
>
>
>> On Feb 2, 2025, at 5:27 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> As the FORMER administrator, I received notice of 17 members all
>>> quitting TheForge at the same time.  What's up with that???
>> The only thought that comes immediately to mind is that, for unknown
>> reasons, the 17 left at various intervals but the listserv reported
>> them to you all at once in a collected bunch/summary.
>>
>> The information to determine that it happened that way might have been
>> omitted from the notice you received or have been formulated in a way
>> that let you overlook the spread of leaving dates/times.
>>
>> If neither of those is the case and they're clearly time stamped at
>> about the same time, I can't even guess.
>>
>> I suppose you could send email to one or several of the unsubscribing
>> addresses and ask.  As you're our long-time and trusted List Mom, I
>> doubt anyone would take offense.
>>
>> No  blacksmithing news from me, sorry to say.  I've gotten too old to
>> go out and work in an unheated shop when it's single digits (F)
>> outside.  I even slack off on splitting firewood when it's that cold.
>> A friend who used to live in Timmins, Ontario accuses me of wimping
>> out when it isn't colder that 40 below.  He's right.  :-)  But then,
>> *he* lives *here* now where it never gets any where near that cold.
>>
>> -- 
>> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>>                                                            /V\
>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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