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<DIV><FONT face="Calisto MT">Gary, you flatter me by saying that you trust
me. Certainly I have done nothing to earn anyone's mistrust here.
Howver, folks are more likely to trust you mainly because you've done things in
the past (quite a few things) to earn their trust. All the coordinating
with convention booklets, membership cards, hats, etc, etc. Nothing I have
done can compare. Plus I'm a relative newcomer to the Groop (3 or 4 years
I think). You're more well known to everyone here. Trust is
earned. There would be more participation in this sort of thing if people
know they not are sending their valuable comics off to a stranger, not
knowing if they will every hear from that person again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Calisto MT">John T is certainly trustworthy. I'd nominate
him. He's helped me twice in the past and asked for nothing back (odd,
especially considering its his livelyhood). I'd have no trouble packing up
my spares and sending them off to him. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Calisto MT">So we have a volunteer for the database, just need
the physical host. Waddaya say, John?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>