[Homestead] ???

Clansgian at wmconnect.com Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Mon Mar 2 20:09:38 EST 2009


> >Well, sorry for the bunch of stories I just posted.  Even if you don't 
> read the stories, you at least might gain a new site for alternative news.

There are so many of them (not just from you, Bev, you are rather an amateur 
compared to list clogging I've seen) that the only thing to do for the sake of 
reading anything about homesteading it to delete them unread.  On other 
homesteading and small-holding lists the traffic is 95% directly homestead related 
and so the net gleanings from opening all the mail is very good.   But when 
just general news stories are offered by the gross with there being no obvious 
connection to homesteading, one has to open them, often link to them, and then 
read part of the way through before one can determine if there is anything 
that pertains to homesteads.  Not enough time for that so I just delete the lot 
of them.  Trouble is, when we get to times when there isn't much homestead 
discussion but lots of general "isn't this interesting" posts, with little or 
confusing change of subject line, there's nothing to do but delete most of it and 
hope that nothing important was being discussed.

What I'm, perhaps unreasonably, expecting is some early assertion as to how 
the news item relates to homesteading and the homestead life.  Almost 
everything can relate perhaps ... but how?    If all of us forwarded a link to very 
article we found interesting, the list would explode! 


James


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