Hello everyone - I received an invite to this private area the other day. I didn't even know this was here, but, thanks! I appreciate it!

I've been around the block on some other forums, I'm even an Admin that helps run one (for White Sox fans: www.soxtalk.com, not really related to this). But I'm curious, how do you folks decide where to post things? I mean, the public forum versus this one. Are there guidelines or advice on that?

I have not seen any real differences in what to post here vs the regular Quetico public forum. In theory, this private place is a place where you may feel free to post things you might not want a lot of other people to see. I just don't think that has been the practice.

I actually wish there was only one Quetico Forum. This private one is little used but, being a Quetico user almost exclusively, I find myself checking both Forums since I don't want to miss any Quetico related postings. Does not seem too efficient to go to two different spots on the same website to get what amounts to the same information.

Big problem for me, heh?

This is the secret forum for the hard-core bunch. The regular Q forum can be read by anyone, anywhere (I know you already know that).

I prefer to post on this forum knowing that the information will be kept between us. Some advice, stories, or suggestions are from experiences that I don't want to share with the world. Some of what I know and have seen in the Q are only for guys like me, and guys like you.

BTW, my Great Grandfather, Billy Niesen, owned a semi-pro baseball team in Chicago in the 1920's. It was called the Niesen Pyotts. He hung out with Wrigley, who was a baseball fan, and Connie Mack. I have some great old pictures of the stadium with thousands of fans watching the games. There is a memorial of him in a cematary in Chicago

Tom

DWT: Welcome! Have you memorized the password and practiced the secret handshake? --Goose

Welcome DWT... This is a great forum for us Q paddlers. :)

Thanks everyone. I can see some situations where one might want to not have the info on the public forum. For example, I think I mentioned the magic fishing hole in Jean Lake out there, and now that I think of it, maybe should have kept it back here. Oh well, lesson learned.

quote tumblehome: "BTW, my Great Grandfather, Billy Niesen, owned a semi-pro baseball team in Chicago in the 1920's. It was called the Niesen Pyotts. He hung out with Wrigley, who was a baseball fan, and Connie Mack. I have some great old pictures of the stadium with thousands of fans watching the games. There is a memorial of him in a cematary in Chicago"

Interesting - I don't know much about that era in Chicago baseball, aside from the MLB teams. You made me curious, so I googled, and found an article which looks like it may reference you: http://scottsimkus.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/gunthers-pyotts-photos/.

quote DancesWithTrees: "

quote tumblehome: "BTW, my Great Grandfather, Billy Niesen, owned a semi-pro baseball team in Chicago in the 1920's. It was called the Niesen Pyotts. He hung out with Wrigley, who was a baseball fan, and Connie Mack. I have some great old pictures of the stadium with thousands of fans watching the games. There is a memorial of him in a cematary in Chicago"

Interesting - I don't know much about that era in Chicago baseball, aside from the MLB teams. You made me curious, so I googled, and found an article which looks like it may reference you: http://scottsimkus.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/gunthers-pyotts-photos/.
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Yup, that's me that gave him that info. Small world, I guess. I just don't know what to do with all of the old baseball information we have stashed away. Now about that fishin' hole.....