permaculture

[Christer Ellingsen <aasnee@online.no>]

Larry London wrote:

>
>
> Welcome to MetaLab's permaculture discussion forum!
> Glad you found us.
>

Thank you very much, and so am I.

> It does seem to work that way, fortunately for all of us.

Indeed

>
> What is the address of your Norwegian PC website?

i take it that you are referring to the site of the norwegian Permaculture 
association. That site is still under
development. But I will post the url to the group as soon as it is open to 
the public.

>
> Yes, this list (or forum) _does_ have a news interface.

And a good feature it is, I subscribe that way.

>
> Possibly a good idea to create alt.permaculture, though it may get
> spammed enought to discourage active participation by good contributors.
> This list can be made spamproof - said users and their posts can be
> permanently deleted/locked out.

Yes, well spam is a problem in some news groups but it doesn't seem to be a 
overwhelming problem at least not in this
kind of group. But a mailing list like is of course more spam proof but then 
everything has it's advantages and
disadvantages that's why it might be a good idea to have both the different 
mailing lists offered around the net, and
a newsgroup.

>
> > I have taken some hours to consider this and my conclusion is to ask you
> > that are visiting this news server what to do.
>
> I'd suggest sticking with this list for the long haul. Alt.permaculture
> may be a good idea too.

Mailing list are a good way of communicating, I spent my first months on the 
net in a "safe heaven" of a woodcarver
mailing list. i have a lot to thank those "wood chucks" for, kind of teaching 
me the ropes. but mailing lists and
newsgroups tend to attract differnet clientele and subjects so i think it 
would be a good thing to have both.

> You just have to know the name of our news server in order to access this
> list, and it is: news://franklin.oit.unc.edu.

Yes but that url wasn't too easy to find.

 Well thank you very much for the good hearted input. Since the input so far 
(both on the list and privately) seems to
be positive i will go ahead and create the group. One important part of that 
process creating a new group is to prove
that there is ongoing communication on the subject of the group on the net. 
Would it be possible to get a copy of
stats. on the posting to the different lyris forums that you host? Not names 
of senders of course just numbers for a
given period.
Christer Ellingsen

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