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Re: Bay Area local garden newsgroup anyone?

Dear Sean,
I vote to keep the two groups separate. In my case I enjoy medit-plants
international voice & find that I have local sources for local issues.
Elly Bade


On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Sean A. O'Hara wrote:

> At 02:21 PM 4/23/98 -0700, Cyndi Norman wrote:
> >I also posted this to rec.gardens
> >
> >I've been interested for a while in the possibility of a group like
> >ba.gardens where people in the San Fransisco Bay Area could discuss
> >gardening issues.  It would supplement general groups like rec.gardens and
> >more specilized ones like MeditPlants.  I've wanted many times to discuss
> >things like local nurseries and garden events, our weather, varieties of
> >veggies that work in this area, plant exchanges, etc.  These types of
> >issues are of course welcome on the larger groups, but I think we in the
> >Bay Area could benefit from a local discussion.   <snip>
> 
> Cyndi - 
> 
> I had always envisioned Medit-Plants fullfulling this for Bay Area
> folks as well as other areas.  At time, there have been numerous
> 'regional' announcements and discussions of local events and resources.
> It seemed to me that since Medit-Plants is such a low volume group
> (compared to many), that this would not be offputting to those to
> whom it wasn't relevant.  Perhaps I am wrong in this assumption.
> 
> What do Medit-Plants folks think?  It'd be nice to have our group
> encompass type of discussion more routinely (I was not aware some
> felt reticent to post such information).  I wonder if some of our
> group might 'leave' to join this other forum, or if everyone might
> join both anyway?  Local announcements are often useful to those
> from other areas - it gives them insight to what happening locally.
> Important when you visit an area and wonder what you might do while
> you're there.  Also, a large number of Medit-Plants subscribers (at
> this time) are local to the Bay Area.
> 
> If people don't feel comfortable posting to the group on this topic,
> feel free to e-mail me (and perhaps Cyndi) directly.  Thanks.
> 
> 
>  Sean A. O'Hara                     sean.ohara@ucop.edu
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