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Re: the value of this list

Title: Re: [GWL] the value of this list
I wouldn't call this a "me too" post (though it would have been nice if the whole digest hadn't been quoted with it).  You did have your own point to make.
   The one thing I don't like about this is that I've tried to "housebreak" everyone to keep the list tidy and on track WITHOUT my having to say anything.  When I do say something, someone always takes it badly, and, like this time, it tends to stir up as many comments as it stops.  Not to mention the offlist letters I get.
   This is a really high quality, interesting bunch of people.  It's definitely head and shoulders above the average gardening list.  I'm honored to be in such company, believe me.  I WANT to keep the list going, but I also don't want to let it go stale.  If I really thought it was degenerating into simply a garden list, I'd euthanize it rather than let it become a pale shell of itself.  That doesn't mean I am going to, or threatening to, just that I want to see it continue to stay a high quality list.  But if it really went bad, better to have it go out than disgrace itself.
   That's a view, not a threat to kill the list.  
   So remember to keep it relevant to the list, to edit your posts, and keep being the lively, interesting people you are.  
   Oh yes, just because the alternate list is titled organic-gardening, that doesn't mean you can't talk about other things.  That was a title of convenience, as much as anything.
-Lon Rombough
   

From: Mary Henry <mshen1@mac.com>
Reply-To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:37:00 -0600
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [GWL] the value of this list

At the risk of getting a slap for being a "me too" post, I need to say  
that what I learn here from all the posts that address content (me toos  
excluded!) helps me broaden my scope as a writer. I have belonged to  
many plant or garden oriented lists in the past and only this one is  
still being asked into my inbox. I agree with Larry, I would miss this  
one very much for both the writing and the writers' viewpoints on  
subjects we write about. If you look back at most of those seemingly  
non-writing discussions, you will see that they do reflect the point of  
view of writers who are thinking about how they will present content to  
their readers. The gardening discussions here also cover the entire  
range of gardening subjects where others may be very specific. We can  
ask each other about water gardening, new tools, micro-propagation or  
using perennials in containers as well as copyright issues and dealing  
with publishers. The archives are always a great source, too. I have  
gone looking for something that I noticed in passing four times in the  
last year.
 
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