Homestead mailing list

[Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

The political talk seemed the cause of the final throes of this list, but I
think that it ran deeper and maybe was a symptom and not the cause. There
was a time when this list was a place to ask questions and discuss answers.
At some point, the answers were "that's been discussed" or "did you bother
to google that topic before you asked"?

Somehow we stopped getting pleasure out of discussing homesteading.

I'm not sure the list is dead. Can it be revived? I have no idea who is on
this list for starters. The www and other more modern means of
communication may have taken something away form the listserv, but I'd say
that's not the issue here.

It's a shame we can't seem to get our discussion on. The thing I always
like about this list is that it was hard core, straight-forward discussion
of homesteading with no censors.

Rob - Va


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 29, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Rob wrote:
>
> > I woke up this morning wondering what happened to the homestead list.
> >
> > An e-mail list is (was?) a new type of community, a group of people
> > with almost instant written communication drawn together around a
> > common theme. In this case a the concept of homesteading.
> >
> > For many years this was an active & vibrant place to be and then it
> wasn't....
> > Did everybody give up the homestead dream? Did the world change so
> > much that the group was not necessary?  I think "not" to both of
> > those, there are still active groups in the internet world and
> > somewhat on facebook. The dream (or necessity) of doing it yourself
> > is still there.
> > A lack of leadership? Maybe, leadership on a list is hard to pin
> > down. The leader could be a knowledgeable regular poster or a list
> > owner who both posts & keeps order it is rarely the totalitarian who
> > rules with the iron fist, lists have to be at least a little fun to
> > keep people.
> > Did one person manage to poison the well? That is possible, people
> > left the list rather than deal with the poison.
> >
> > I think enough people left (for whatever the reason, I'm guessing
> > poison & no leadership) that the dynamic of the list fell apart and
> > the community that was people, their words and ideas collapsed & is
> gone. Sad.
>
> Rob, I agree with all you have written above. Lee was the owner but she
> did not care enough to manage. The unrestrained political garbage posted by
> two members repelled me.
>
> Gene
>
> _______________________________________________
> Homestead list and subscription:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead
> Change your homestead list member options:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/waltonrp%40gmail.com
> View the archives at:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead
>
>
>