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[Lee Flier <lflier AT mindspring.com>]

No, I agree, Tvo never got cranky with newbie questions. I just think 
the list, particularly after his passing, got to where newbies wouldn't 
have felt welcome because it was mostly political stuff and contentious 
arguments between a few personalities who would never back down from 
anything. I certainly didn't want to hang around at that point, let 
alone a newbie! :)

Nice to "see" some of you folks again though, and get back to a bit of 
homestead talk!

On 1/1/2013 5:20 PM, lurine AT com-pair.net wrote:
> 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.
>
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