One of the the great benefits, in my experience, of participating in a posting forum like TERB and similar boards has been the ability to receive info/intel from reports by regular posters who are also attending SCs fairly regularly. In the past, this has been a great help to me (and I assume to a number of others) in keeping informed about when a certain dancer would be, or at least is likely to be, in the club in question.
However, in some cases there are either not enough regular attendees/posters or the dancer of interest is in the club too infrequently or sporadically to make even the most careful monitoring of the boards all that helpful in determining (i.e. guessing) what would be an opportune time to visit in hopes of finding a particular dancer present.
At one point an ATF dancer provided me with her cell number but I never had occasion to use it, mostly for the reason that the 'grapevine' (as noted above) kept me fairly well informed about her schedule but also 'cause I'm a bit of a Luddite as far as smartphone culture is concerned. In any case, a few people told me that she wasn't all that good about returning text messages, so the whole thing seemed to be really not that much of an issue.
More recently, a potential ATF dancer has provided me with an e-mail address for contact and I'm hoping that this will provide an opportunity for her to let me know when she's likely (or at least plannng) to be in the club.
At the risk of sounding disrespectful, I really wonder if this will in fact work out in the way I'm hoping and if she will ever use this as a channel of communication for informing me (or others) about her upcoming scheduling plans. I understand that club attendance will not be the only thing on a dancer's mind (to say the least) and it's easy to ignore and delete e-mails, perhaps even inadvertantly.
It may be that my expectations are too high in this regard, but I've always been puzzled about why more dancers don't take advantage of the relative anonymity of e-mail (or indeed participating on a forum such as this one) to keep interested clubgoers informed about their schedules.
I didn't ask for this dancer's e-mail, she provided it without prompting so I'm hoping that it will turn out to be advantageous for both of us to maintain contact in this manner.
I'd be interested in hearing the experiences of others who have been given cell numbers/e-mail addresses of dancers. Did it turn out to be a useful means of receiving info or did it turn out to be something that you/she rarely or never used?
Certainly don't intend to bombard the lady with messages but I have sent an initial e-mail mostly to provide an address to which she can reply. It may be that I'm hopelessly naive to expect anything in this regard but, to repeat, it is slightly puzzling to me that this sort of contact isn't used more often, if only for the advantage of the dancer. (Or maybe it's a lot more common than I'm aware.) Wouldn't it be worth a few minutes of e-mailing or posting to inform interested patrons that she'll be in the club?
However, in some cases there are either not enough regular attendees/posters or the dancer of interest is in the club too infrequently or sporadically to make even the most careful monitoring of the boards all that helpful in determining (i.e. guessing) what would be an opportune time to visit in hopes of finding a particular dancer present.
At one point an ATF dancer provided me with her cell number but I never had occasion to use it, mostly for the reason that the 'grapevine' (as noted above) kept me fairly well informed about her schedule but also 'cause I'm a bit of a Luddite as far as smartphone culture is concerned. In any case, a few people told me that she wasn't all that good about returning text messages, so the whole thing seemed to be really not that much of an issue.
More recently, a potential ATF dancer has provided me with an e-mail address for contact and I'm hoping that this will provide an opportunity for her to let me know when she's likely (or at least plannng) to be in the club.
At the risk of sounding disrespectful, I really wonder if this will in fact work out in the way I'm hoping and if she will ever use this as a channel of communication for informing me (or others) about her upcoming scheduling plans. I understand that club attendance will not be the only thing on a dancer's mind (to say the least) and it's easy to ignore and delete e-mails, perhaps even inadvertantly.
It may be that my expectations are too high in this regard, but I've always been puzzled about why more dancers don't take advantage of the relative anonymity of e-mail (or indeed participating on a forum such as this one) to keep interested clubgoers informed about their schedules.
I didn't ask for this dancer's e-mail, she provided it without prompting so I'm hoping that it will turn out to be advantageous for both of us to maintain contact in this manner.
I'd be interested in hearing the experiences of others who have been given cell numbers/e-mail addresses of dancers. Did it turn out to be a useful means of receiving info or did it turn out to be something that you/she rarely or never used?
Certainly don't intend to bombard the lady with messages but I have sent an initial e-mail mostly to provide an address to which she can reply. It may be that I'm hopelessly naive to expect anything in this regard but, to repeat, it is slightly puzzling to me that this sort of contact isn't used more often, if only for the advantage of the dancer. (Or maybe it's a lot more common than I'm aware.) Wouldn't it be worth a few minutes of e-mailing or posting to inform interested patrons that she'll be in the club?