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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

>   I have failed at my attempt to fit in and
> argue my views without offense.  Perhaps I have even worn out my welcome
> here.
> 

Bev, Gene most certainly isn't talking about you.  

Before you rejoined the list, it had pretty much dried up.  Unlike other 
homestead lists that are very deep into homesteading where threads go on for 
some 
time with people exulting "Aha!  I'm off the grid!"  "I haven't been in the 
grocery store in months."  "I find I didn't need a job after all!"  "I felt 
lousy until I got out here on homestead" ... unlike those any threads on 
exuberance, philosophy of homesteading, or such are short lived.

When the authors of most  whining posts moved over to Robinson's Losers List 
and we lost Tvo, most posts were the occasional political diatribe which 
always included Lynda declaring someone or the other to be the dregs of 
humanity.  
There'd be an occasional question raised about a specific homestead issue and 
an occasional report from someone's farm.  The list would go for days with no 
posts.

When you rejoined the volume picked up considerable simply becasue you 
initiated threads, some which went nowhere but many that did.

There are a number of lists and blogs that do deal with homesteading beyond 
the "think the rain will ruin the rhubarb?"  type posts.  They are full of 
optimism about the benefits of an alternate lifestyle.  This list is what it 
is 
and pretty much always has been.