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Re: Bay Area local garden newsgroup anyone?

Dear all,
This is a great resource, and one I wouldn't want diluted. Maybe more of
us could help Carol keep it up.
Elly


On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, The Bay Area Gardener wrote:

> Cyndi,
> 
> I've been working on establishing such a discussion forum  for the past
> couple of months. It was probably an oversight to have not mentioned it to
> this group. However, I've been careful not to talk too much about The Bay
> Area Gardener because haven't wanted people on the group to feel that I'm
> "advertising" my project too much. However, Sean and I have both mentioned
> it every once in a while.
> 
> If you go to our main Web Site, http://www.gardens.com, you'll see a large
> button on the home page that announces our Bulletin Board.
> 
> We have about 600 people a day coming to our site who access about 50,000
> pages a month.  I put up the bulletin board just recently and have working
> to nurse it to health. Mostly this means that I personally answer each
> question so that those writing in do get at least one response.
> 
> I had followed the work of Bill Robinson in LA in setting up the "green"
> gardening newsgroup and know how hard it is to get a newsgroup going.
> 
> I haven't been hanging out on the newsgroups for a while -- too many hours
> are spent on line as it is(!).  Will check in and see how the disucssion is
> going.
> 
> However, I would like to put in a plea to consider using the BB we've
> already established. In addition to the BB, we include a lot of information
> about what's going on gardening wise in Bay Area, calendar of events, local
> columnists, nursery reviews, resources etc.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Carol
> 
> 
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