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I think it is all individual personalities.  The big homesteading
list I'm on has an owner who has to be late 70s, maybe early 80s.  An
absolute wealth of information and over the years I've been on the
list I have seen him answer the same questions over and over again,
very graciously, for newbees.  Old "articles" he's written are sent
every now again so that people that didn't see them the first time
get to see them again.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember Tvo getting cranky over
answering the same question from a newbee that he'd answered before. 
Maybe I missed those.  Others, yes but not the real storehouse of
information.

Lynda

---- Original Message ----
From: genegerue AT ruralize.com
>
>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.