Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: BoundaryPoint and borders<br/>
Date: Sep 03, 2003 @ 22:27<br/>
Author: Flynn, Kevin (&quot;Flynn, Kevin&quot; &lt;flynnk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1672476181">I guess a reason that might not be a solution is that, as someone else<br/>
mentioned here, IBRG is more highly specialized than the types of border<br/>
discussions some of us have wanted to have. Here is the intro from<br/>
intborder&#39;s home page:<br/>
<br/>
&quot;The International Border Research Group (IBRG) is studying international<br/>
borders and publishing the results. Membership is available for researchers,<br/>
writers and other professionals especially interested in border expeditions.<br/>
Every year the IBRG is arranging an international border expedition. From<br/>
9th - 21st July 2003 The Great Baltic Border Expedition (GBBE) was taking<br/>
place.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
What if we are not &quot;especially interested&quot; in making actual expeditions to<br/>
international borders? Or have desire to discuss non-international borders<br/>
(states, provinces, others?) of the type more appropriate to boundary<br/>
points? Some of us cannot make such expeditions for many reasonable<br/>
circumstances.<br/>
<br/>
-----Original Message-----<br/>
From: m06079 [mailto:<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:barbaria_longa@...">barbaria_longa@...</a>]<br/>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:55 PM<br/>
To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: BoundaryPoint and borders<br/>
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<br/>
jesper<br/>
thanxxx for being here & for all of these reflections & especially <br/>
for the great part of them that i do understand & agree with<br/>
<br/>
but what i dont understand about what you are saying & polling<br/>
is that i thought we all just recently finished creating <br/>
featuring promoting nurturing commending exhorting saluting <br/>
priming & finally opening to everyone our only true sister group <br/>
ibrg <br/>
both by announcements on our bp home page & over the course <br/>
of many months of messages<br/>
& indeed i thought we did all this particularly because ibrg is <br/>
already expressly & fully devoted to borders<br/>
& so people who are interested in both multipoints in particular & <br/>
borders in general could subscribe to both groups<br/>
& indeed they & you have subscribed to both groups<br/>
<br/>
& moreover i thought we did all this especially so as to be able to <br/>
relax about the admittedly difficult question you are again raising<br/>
<br/>
so i still dont get what all the commotion is about<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
why dont we just use our existing second group for the purposes <br/>
we intended it for<br/>
<br/>
& why would we need to even think about creating yet another <br/>
group at this point<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
perhaps just maintaining an affirmation of ibrg on the bp home <br/>
page with a referral of general border freaks to it<br/>
& perhaps adding a corresponding affirmation of bp to the ibrg <br/>
home page with a referral back to bp for the only slightly strange <br/>
multipointer individuals<br/>
is all we really need to do now <br/>
to ice & decorate our otherwise already fully effective freak & nut <br/>
layer cake <br/>
<br/>
& welcome back jan<br/>
<br/>
--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Jesper Nielsen&quot; <br/>
&lt;jesniel@i...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Dear fellow multipointers and border freaks<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; BoundaryPoint has changed my life. It sounds like a cliche, but <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the truth is that without this group I would never have seen or <br/>
attempted 24 international tripoints, or probably been the first to <br/>
visit all DK county tripoints. I would also not have had the large <br/>
volume of knowledge of international borders that I have today, <br/>
all thanks to you. Without BoundaryPoint there wouldn&#39;t have <br/>
been a Border Crossing Hitlist or BorderBase, etc. etc.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; But my interests for border and boundaries do go beyound <br/>
 </span></blockquote>multipoints. I would much rather visit the dry BGRO than the very <br/>
wet BGCSRO at the other end. Not that I would miss BGCSRO <br/>
though.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; But BoundaryPoint is not really a border group, it&#39;s a multipoint <br/>
 </span></blockquote>group. And border discussions have been much noise in the <br/>
group for very long. And we need to respect the group founders <br/>
and owners intentions.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; So, I have created a poll, so see if creating a sister group to <br/>
 </span></blockquote>BoundaryPoint is wanted. This happens all the time, one topic <br/>
fills up too much in a group, and so a sub- or sister group has <br/>
been established, no hard feelings here.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; If a sister group is wanted, I will offcourse subscribe to both <br/>
 </span></blockquote>groups, as they are not competition, but sisters. <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; But I just feel I need a place where I can post questions and <br/>
 </span></blockquote>share thoughs and material about borders in general.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; All the best<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Jesper<br/>
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