If you want to contact me please use my e-mail address which is:

cmale@aol.com

Thanks,

Carolyn

And this is the only way I can think of getting in touch with her,

Carolyn

Seysonn

"Mr. PupillaCharites, if you are going to interrupt us with something interesting to say, please share it with the rest of the class, or I'm going to send you to the principal's office for a good paddling."

So, what tomato is this all about? People want to know.

PC

She first offered to get me any Russian ones I wanted and gave a link to a seed site in Russian.

But her main issue was that she wanted some seeds from a US place, had paypal and credit cards but they wouldn't ship to Russia so was asking me if they shipped to me if I would send them to Russia.

Now you know WHY I was trying to reach her since what she sent was from GW so I hoped she was checking in to GW sometimes.

Carolyn

You couldn't PM her back through the GW mail because she had email receiving deactivated? Bummer. I have a few geologist and chemist friends I work with in Moscow and Perm who I'll meet up with in January. I'm glad you just posted this because I never though to ask them to bring some tomato seeds. Now all I need is a couple of interesting sites. But with the ruble problems, and cross border currency issues, I think your Tania was very enterprising proposing the trade. Maybe she'll be back, you never know.

All the Russians I deal with have extended US family or business contacts and have been forced to deal in cash lately. Many here, for a small commission will do these sorts of things since it is part of the burocracy they deal with daily. But like minded enthusiasts are always great.

Carolyn, you ought to modify your profile to include your email. I think lubadub and Seysonn have good points. JMO but to have your email there is better than randomly circulating it in 25+ misc. GW posts over the years ... from a spam perspective if I think about that.

PC

cmale at aol dot com

My browser informed me of the problem the same day some recipents did and said to change my password, using their suggestions for a high security one and I did.

So no, I am not going to list my em address in my profile.

And I have several long time friends in Belarus, Germany and elsewhere who send me Russian varieties for my seed offer elsewhere. And until recently I was sending seeds to Russia.And of course Tania lists many hundreds as well

I keep no address book online for obvious reasons, but have perhaps thousands of e-mails over time from those who want to participatre in my seed offer since they have to send me an e-mail to request my address so they can send me a SASE. Those outside the US send me an em with what they want and I pay all the postege back to whatever country they live in, which is not cheap, thus lessening the money in my dark bittersweet chocolate budget. LOL

Carolyn

A month ago, a trojan malware nailed my computer and it was hell. I torched the compromised operating system on the old hard drive which had as many holes as cyber Swiss Cheese (Emmental cheese), then ran triple virus cleaning programs on the old drive, and bought a new drive to reinstall the operating system and now have the old one accessible as a data drive with all the old directory structure and files intact, and a completely new strategy to isolate my main drive.

So, it's a cyber jungle out there and it seems to be a free-for-all with no perfect strategy excpet to be skeptical and vigilent at all times.

Mailing all that internationally on your own dime, the way rates have gone postal ... next time you stick your hand in the cupboard for a chocolate you might only find a bittersweet postage due notice LOL

PC