GWL quotes and rants

**C* G* <c*@yahoo.com>**

Hey all, I lurk and rarely post but this time I need to speak up. In this day and age it is unreasonably to think your posts to an open list are "private" -- five or ten years ago one might have thought so (and still been mistaken) but in today's environment that is just naive, to use Susan's expression. 

  I am sorry I missed the original rant intact with quotes. Maybe that would explain why folks are upset about it. 

  Anyhoo, let me add that in re the PANTS show hype:

  As much as I personally detest the "what's hot -- what's not" go go sales mentality when it affects garden writing, in all fairness that particular talk in your rant is being done at the PANTS show -- where folks actually go specifically to catch up on what's new. I feel writers should be and need to be well informed, but what they do with that information is up to them. Whether or not knowing what's new turns them into "product pimps" is another issue. 

  Ok, I'm done. :)

Barbara Martin 
  FLOWER GARDENS
http://flowergardens.suite101.com/ 
Member, Garden Writers Association

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