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["Bruce Hansen" <brucehansen@acd.net>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Fwd: A Good Plan For Peace..the more you think about it the more ...

Lon:

 

It is easy to see where you are coming from but I think it is more difficult than 'off topic'. I cannot imagine sitting behind the keyboard in 1944 and not talking about the war. World War II was the topic. It appears to me that if we can have a thread on black locust trees, we ought to be able to devote a thread on liberty.

 

Bruce z5 MI 

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Lon J. Rombough
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:04 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fwd: A Good Plan For Peace..the more you think aboutit the more ...

Problem is, any given discussion list usually has one particular area of interest it was set up for.  In this case, it is fruit and nut culture.  If the list starts into other, unrelated areas, it can easily break down into a free-for-all and the members lose interest and either leave or stop participating.  Either way is death for the list.  While we all have an interest in the intended topic, we don't all have an interest in other topics, or we have varying ideas and opinions.  Trying to veer into those other areas is a sure way to bring about division.
   In short, keep on topic and keep the list.  Go off topic, there goes the list.  Much better to send those "special" items just to people who you KNOW would want to recieve them.
-Lon Rombough

I think everyplace is the place for this. I do not object.