Introducing Old Decos and Homers (ODAH)

If you've been swapping booklets for some time, you know that these things often take years to come back to they owner (when they do come back...). Fortunately, there's an active community of swappers online, mainly on Yahoo Groups, who helps completing and returning booklets who've been travelling for too long already.

One of these groups is Old_Decos_And_Homers. As you can guess, this group was created to rescue Decos which either at least 3 year old, or need one last signer before being returned.

The way it works is very simple:

When a member gets a deco that fits the above criteria, she enters it in the group's database and post a message to the whole group.
The members who are interested in signing the deco can either email the person who offer it directly, or sign in the database.
Then the deco get passed on - always within the group. And each person who gets it write in the database when she gets it, to whom she sends it next, and when.

All that is organised by very nice moderators: they regularly take a look at the database and if some decos remain stuck with someone for too long, they ask for updates.

So if you're interested in this group, head to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Old_Decos_And_Homers/

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