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[Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

So is there a way to find out how many subscribers are on this list?
Lee???? You out there by any chance?


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 29, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Robert Walton wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> That is fair, Rob. After one answers the same basic questions many times,
> it becomes tedious and time-wasting. That is one of the advantages of
> books: the author is highly motivated to write the material and get it out
> there to the readers. Then they go on to the next subject.
>
> I'm guess I'm showing my age. Perhaps it is simply generational.
>
> I very much enjoyed the back-and-forth with Tvo.
>
> Gene
>
> >
> > 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
> >>
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