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. Thereanswers.
was a time when this list was a place to ask questions and discuss
At some point, the answers were "that's been discussed" or "did youbother
to google that topic before you asked"?That is fair, Rob. After one answers the same basic questions many times,
Somehow we stopped getting pleasure out of discussing homesteading.
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 ison
this list for starters. The www and other more modern means ofsay
communication may have taken something away form the listserv, but I'd
that's not the issue here.discussion
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
of homesteading with no censors.wrote:
Rob - Va
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
posted byOn Dec 29, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Rob wrote:
I woke up this morning wondering what happened to the homestead list.wasn't....
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
Did everybody give up the homestead dream? Did the world change sogone. Sad.
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
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
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/genegerue%40ruralize.comtwo members repelled me._______________________________________________
Gene
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