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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, DH put a purgola on the front deck and some shade cloth.  He's now 
building another on on the back deck and wants to enclose it for a sunroom 
type thing, so I decided to check into Freecycle and Craigslist.

The closest *real* Freecycle is in Redding.  So, I signed up and then got 
Ms. Control Freak's answer -- You don't live in Shasta County, you can't 
join, go join the one in your county.  HELLO!  There are a whole 13,000 
people in this county and the local Freecycle has about 10 posts a month MAX 
and 3 to 5 of them are the listowner posts about netiquette and rules, etc. 
The only post in March was a free bag of books and I think April had some 
old picture frames.

Shasta County, on the other hand has 164,000 people.  Now, I could join the 
Humboldt County freecycle.  They don't have a problem with that but they are 
over 4 hours away.

What is this broad's problem?  Is she afraid someone from another county 
might get a great deal?  Is this the norm?  Are other freecycles set up with 
this type of parameters?

Lynda, who will stop ranting now <g>