Re: Mea culpa

**fran gustman f*@juno.com**

Is there any way to provide a link to the new list with the letter that
you think should be continued there?

FRan

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:07:24 -0800 "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
writes:
>    Having lectured the list on moving non-writing topics to the new
> gardening list, I have to apologize for not having done it myself.  
> The
> thread on non-natives hit a nerve, and while it was germaine to 
> garden
> writing in one way, since it reflected a viewpoint that garden 
> writers might
> consider, it was still too far off the writing mark to really be 
> well suited
> to the list.
>    Which brings the second point of this letter - the new organic 
> gardening
> list.
>    I would like to know, offlist if need be, what would provide the
> incentive to the group to carry garden-type threads over to the new 
> list,
> which was started to allow such discussions to continue without 
> overloading
> the Garden WRITING list.    I've moved a few such threads, but no 
> one seems
> to continue them once they are moved.  As I've said before, THIS 
> list was
> created for garden WRITING, but we are in serious danger of letting 
> it slip
> into being just a garden list.
>    Frankly, I'd just as soon kill the list as let it become just 
> another
> gardening list.   
>    We're all human, and very nice ones, too.  But we ALL must 
> maintain the
> discipline of keeping the list on topic and running cleanly if we 
> want it to
> live up to it's full potential.  Besides the fact that I don't like 
> having
> to be the "heavy" to keep it running.
>    Please, folks, help me out.
> -Lon Rombough, list founder 
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Fran Gustman,  fgustman@juno.com
Editor, HortResources Newsletter
Editor, Wild Ones Journal,  www.for-wild.org
Boston, MA
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