Re: List still active?

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Amy,

I guess I don't understand why there is a need for another discussion board. 
Isn't this list a discussion board/list...whatever you want to call it? What 
is different about your discussion board...except you don't have to belong 
to GWA? And...I guess, why wouldn't a garden writer want to belong to GWA?

I'm confused and I don't need several lists to check if I want to get any 
real garden writing done...

There already was a group that took gardening discussions (versus garden 
writing discussions) to another list. I joined...and now I get nothing from 
that group anymore and it seems a few gardening discussions have gotten back 
into our list, which frankly as a garden writer, I don't mind, in fact I 
enjoy.

So, just call me confused...or not convinced...

Is anyone else confused, or is it just me?

Sandie Parrott
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy Stewart" <amy@amystewart.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] List still active?

> Hi Margaret,
>
> If you're asking whether people are leaving this listserv for the garden
> writers discussion board that I set up, that certainly isn't necessary.
> There are already a few ways for garden writers to communicate -- a group 
> on
> GardenWeb, a Yahoo group, and now a discussion board. Again, I only set 
> this
> up because so many people at GWA said they wanted one. I think people will
> use whatever resources work best for them-- doesn't matter to me what form
> of communication people choose, but I figure that if garden writers want a
> discussion board, there's no reason for them not to have one.
>
> It's not private in the sense of "exclusive" -- it's only private in the
> sense that you need to set up a username and password (as you did for this
> listserv originally), and then write a few words in the enrollment box to
> let me know that you are garden writer and not a spammer. In other words,
> the privacy aspect is only to keep spammers off and also to keep random
> people from finding the discussion board on Google and joining in even if
> they're not a garden writer.
>
> Margaret and Judy, if you're having trouble signing, feel free to drop me 
> a
> note and let me know what's going on. I just need to know specifically 
> what
> message you're getting at what point in the process. So far 108 people 
> have
> signed up and maybe five of them had e-mailed me to say that they couldn't
> figure out how to log on.  In every case, I was able to point them to the
> step-by-step instructions and they realized that they had skipped a step.
>
> I have not rejected a single application. I have approved everybody who 
> has
> signed up.
>
> Instructions are here:
>
> http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2008/09/the-garden-writ.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Amy
> amy@amystewart.com
>
>
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