Fwd: medit - Reply All no longer necessary

Greetings, plant lovers!  This is a message I saved from a while ago.  Maybe it will help some people.

I am 87, have moved from Palos Verdes, California  to Oakland, California. This is my first year here.   I have a teeny tiny balcony on the 12th floor of a retirement residence.  David Feix kindly arrived with two boards and his electric saw and made two benches for the pots of succulents that I brought up here from Los Angeles.  At first they were attacked by mealy bug, aphids, and a little green caterpillar that ate the flower buds.  I sprayed with Safers' Soap and they seem to have acclimated.  There was a guy in L A who was making crosses between aloes and gasterias.  I think I have some of them but name tags were lost en route up here.  Anyway, everything is now happy and I have had lots of blooms.

Right now other bloomers are Lachenalias and a beautiful purple Moraea.  I snatched these up at the last minute and also brought some Brodiaea capitata which didn't bloom.  Maybe next year.  I grew up in Berkeley when the hills were grassy with very few houses and loved those purple bulbs.  They also grew in wild hills in the Los Angeles area.

In my small southwest-facing living room I have a  giant Chamaedorea elegans ("Parlor Palm") which is almost too happy.  It gets quite a bit of sun and plenty of water and is about to hit the ceiling.  It is even blooming, though the flowers are not a big treat, being green and inconspicuous.  Other indoor plants are various bromeliads which seem happy.  The Nidularium which almost never bloomed in Los Angeles is now receiving more sun and rewarded me with a beautiful flower.  They are so long-lasting that I am tempted to acquire another color form.

Cathy Ratner

Begin forwarded message:

From: Diane Whitehead <v*@islandnet.com>
Date: January 11, 2010 3:50:17 PM PST
To: medit plants forum <m*@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: medit - Reply All no longer necessary
Reply-To: m*@ucdavis.edu

Dear Medit-Plants Members,

Until a few days ago, the Medit list was set so that if you just hit "Reply", your reply would go to the member who had sent the message you were replying to.  If you wanted the message to go to everyone on the list, you had to specify "Reply All", in which case you would be sending two messages:  one to the member who wrote the original message, and a second copy to the whole list.

This was the opposite to most online lists.  It had some advantages:  we didn't get any "Oops! sorry I sent that private message to you all" events.  We didn't get many "Yes, I think so too" messages that didn't add much to the discussion. However, we probably missed a lot of important information from people who didn't know about "Reply All".

By this November, messages had dwindled alarmingly, and there was not a single one in December.  I asked Sean if he agreed it would be a good idea to change the reply rule, and he thought so too.  So, a few days ago, I changed it.

Now, if you "Reply", you are replying to the list, and we are all benefitting.

However, I have noticed an anomaly:  if one of the members who knew about "Reply All", still does so, (like Trevor N), the message you send in Reply will go only to him, unless you "Reply All".

So:  please don't Reply All anymore.  Just Reply.

Diane Whitehead




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