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Old 19th February 2022, 07:30 PM
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Thank You Mike, I'm impressed that you can retrieve that kind of information.
I joined FADU in december 2011, but I don't think I took part in any of the exchanges until early 2013. FADU seems to have a lot of members, but many have been inactive for a long time. Even some former stalwarts.
I'd be curious (if the MODS could do such a thing) to know just how many active members we have. Perhaps defined as individuals who have posted at least twice in the last 3 months.
You see a lot of threads which start "Hi, I'm new here . . " or "I've just bought an old Pentax, anyone know what this button does . . "
Advice follows but the OP is never seen again.
The forum does not provide that level of info unfortunately, the best I can get is that 136 individual members have visited the forum at least once in the last 30 days and the the number of daily visitors has fallen from around 90 per day to around 60 per day over the last 5 years.

The number of posts has fallen a little over the 5 years with around 350-450 per month (but during both lockdowns, an increase is seen - especially during the first one) - click on the below:

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Old 22nd February 2022, 10:36 PM
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Thanks Bob.
Those numbers do reflect what I thought was happening. All the more reason to keep up things like the print exchanges, which do seem to stimulate activity. Rather like the print competitions we had in camera clubs in ye olden days.
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Bumpity-bump-bump.

So far we have:
TerryS
Uwe Pilz

The curtain comes down on this tomorrow night. We's be pleased to hear from anyone else interested in participating, but equally recognise participants here are also doing the Print exchange.
There will be more opportunities in the future.
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Old 26th February 2022, 12:43 PM
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Thank you to the many folk who have taken the time to view this thread and consider participation.
For this round we have:

Uwe Pilz
TerryS.

PMs with contact details will come out shortly, but I'm guessing Terry and Uwe can work out who each is going to be paired with.
Best of luck Gentlemen!
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Old 26th February 2022, 01:04 PM
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A shame that only two of us have put our names down for this round.

I await the surprise of finding out whom I've been paired with.

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Dear Terry, my letter is in the mail. I hope you enjoy printing my negative.
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Old 1st March 2022, 05:09 PM
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Uwe, I am very impressed.
I did warn Terry you'd be quick off the mark but this surprises even me.
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Of course, I prepared all in advance.
I had only to write a letter.

I am project manager my profession and have a project-manager-obsession
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Old 2nd March 2022, 03:17 PM
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Dear Terry, my letter is in the mail. I hope you enjoy printing my negative.
Thanks Uwe. I will try and sort out a negative to print and send to you, hopefully over the weekend, when I'm free. In the meantime I look forward to receiving your letter.

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Uwe, I am very impressed.
I did warn Terry you'd be quick off the mark but this surprises even me.
You should know by now that Uwe's always on the ball and generally first to get things out and in the post.

@Skellum, I was thinking about the swap last night, and even though there only two participants signed up, I'm sure it will still be an interesting exercise.

But I kept thinking of you as the organiser and not being able to be involved due to the numbers, which I feel is a little unfair. So I'll let you make the final decision, but I am quite happy to sort out a second negative to send to you with a 'secret' print. It won't add a lot to my workload and I really don't mind, but as I said the choice is yours. It all depends upon how busy you are I suppose.

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Thanks Terry,
I will certainly take you up on that. I think having some more images to show in the final gallery helps to demonstrate what the exchange can do.
You probably have my details but I'll PM them shortly.
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