The Perennial Mailing List - Please read

This is an issue we should all know. As one memeber
has stated on the pumpkin mailing list... this also
applies to the perennial mailing list. Please read and
have a heart to support Mallorn.

Duncan

Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:56:34 +0000
From: "Beth Rado" <rado1000@hotmail.com>
Subject: The List

Wow.  Did you all realize there are now 357 of us who
subscribe to the 
Mallorn PUMPKINS list???!!!  We've grown!  I believe I
subscribed in late 
97.  Thats more than 6 years that Chris Lindsey has
provided my personal 
lifeline to this crazy obsession.

Just out of curiosity I just went back to the first
monthly listing, for 
January, 1997.  There are actually a few older posts 
from 93 and 94.  But 
amazingly, I see signatures for Paul McIntyre, George
GBPUMPKIN Brooks, 
Pumkinguy (we dont hear from him as much these days,
but Wayne, we know you 
are out there).  I see Tony Hickman (we miss him), Joe
Pukos, and Vickie 
Brock (Brock, youve been impersonating your wife for
a heckuva long time  
why again did Diana/Vince get himself in so much hot
water???).  I see 
Duncan, of course, and Tim Aker (Tim, you still
here?), Chris Andersen, 
Chris Wilbers!  Bill Verchere.  Hey.  Mike Nepereny,
talking about pumpkins 
in the south... I wonder who that could be??  And
where is Troy Naylor?  Gus 
Saunders.  Hey you Canucks, how is Gus doing?  Is
Pkinbumkin Ethan Jervis?  
This is like looking at an old yearbook or something!

I see posts with questions, posts with good
information, posts musing about 
possibilities, posts with, uh, slightly inappropriate
content.  I see 
BICKERING!  Ha ha.  ROFLMAO.  I even see one person
trying to unsubscribe in 
a post.  All in all, I see people who love pumpkins
reaching out in all the 
normal human ways to try to connect to other people
who love pumpkins.  The 
more things change, the more they stay the same.

Which brings us to Christopher Lindsey.  Bless his
heart.  All this time, 
all this information, all this pumpkinness.  Mallorn
has just been here, 
like air.  Gosh knows I would miss it if it
disappeared.  So I couldnt help 
but notice recently on an archive page, that there is
a fund drive in 
progress.  Check it out:

http://www.hort.net/funds/

There is no book, there is no newsletter that can come
close to the list for 
personalized information, moral support and
encouragement.  That's no slight 
at all to Don or any of the newsletter folks who make
great, and very 
tangible contributions to the pumpkin community.  But
only the list is 
interactive.  Only the list can respond to what's
happening in our patches 
NOW.  Only the list has a seven(plus)-year archive
with just about any 
subject you can imagine, searchable on demand:

http://www.hort.net/lists//pumpkins/search.cgi
(perennials is on
http://www.hort.net/lists/perennials/search.cgi )

Just thought you all might like to know.  I havent
noticed any posts here 
on the fund drive.

Happy New Year!
Beth

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