Re: OT- On topic

Arthur wrote:
> 
> Hello Friends.
>                    I have just returned from a few days holiday, found over
> 400 hundred emails waiting in the computer, out from that number I read
> fourteen that was clearly wrote on the subject Irises.
> I am wondering if this list is going to end up by being a gardening list,
> (by the way there is one already)

Well, certainly there have been some messages that were clearly not
relevent to irises. I probably posted some of those. But, I think some
of the issue depends on how you define "relevent to irises". The general
guidelines form the beginning were topics that concerned the gardening
of irises. That probably includes things like the discussions of what
the differences between moles, voles and gophers are and how they might
impact our irises, the use of clorox and how it does what it does,
whether kiddie pools make good containers for JIs (trying to be
politically correct here) and , and, and. Many people who are nuts about
irises even by things with pictures of irises on them. Even though it is
not my thing, I even consider the "Glassware" thread relevent.

There are lots of threads I am not interested in, but others are. Once a
thread develops, I can tell from the subject line whether to delete it
with out bothering to read it or not. The real problem comes to play
when someone changes the subject in the body of the message and does not
change the subject line.


> I have enjoyed this list, I have learned quite a lot about Irises, the most
> important thing is that I have made contact by using private email to
> various people who know their Irises.

I would ask why you don't pose your questions to the list? The questions
other people ask have provided you information, don't you think your
questions would be of interest to others? Support YOUR list, ask
questions.

> I sincerely hope that we get back to what the list was intended for, which
> is Irises.

IMHO it hasn't been that terrible (and I admit to being one of the
perpetrators) but most of the non-iris mail is either interesting or
emminently "delete-able" with a flick of the finger. 


John                     | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.

John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay) 
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
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