Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society

Louise Parsons and I, the listowners of Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock 
Garden Society mailinglist, were slightly dismayed on November 19 to see 
Duncan McAlpine's posting here on "Perennials" (reproduced below) in which 
he stateded that Alpine-L "is a little beyond the normal rock 
gardener like myself [i. e. like Duncan]".

I had tried, as you can see below, to help John Adney with the new rock 
garden for which he sought help on November 16th on the Perennials list.
The president of the North American Rock Garden Society sent the Adneys 
information at my request; Adney later wrote of a strong response to his 
needs by the rock gardening community.

Because I thought it might be useful, I suggested in my letter (below) to 
John Adney that he would be welcome on Alpine-L.  Duncan McAlpine took it 
upon himself to follow that by making disparaging remarks about our 
list.  We have well over 500 members, all of whom seem to me to be just 
as "normal", if not more so, as Duncan McAlpine.

In his efforts to publicize his own list, Duncan has had quite the 
opposite about Alpine-L to say in a post (immediately below) that he sent 
yesterday to Alpine-L.  I am happy to report that Duncan's opinion of 
Alpine-L, as expressed yesterday, is an improvement over his 
characterization of November 16th.

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 16:44:52 -0700
From: Duncan McAlpine <mcalpin@eskimo.com>
To: ALPINE-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL
Subject: Propagation information

If you are looking for some quick tips on propagation, you can try my
mailing list search engine to see if the Family has been discussed.
http://www.mallorn.com/lists/seeds-list/search.cgi

Just type in the name and see what happens.  If if comes up zero then
try another name.

The archives does not focus on Alpines but all plants.  The topics of
propagation will vary but I would like to educate the ALpine-l members
of this url to support your intrest.

Non realated alpine propagation question can be address on the
seeds-mailing list. Alpine-l provides a great sourse of information on
alpines and seeds-list may provide the information you need on
propagating plants.  Take a look and give it a try.
http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/seed.html

Currently there are 300 plus members.
--
Duncan McAlpine, Federal Way, WA   m*@eskimo.com
Why buy plants when you can grow them yourself.....?
http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/
http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/pumkin.html


Yes, Duncan, we are happy to give you the publicity you seek for your 
list; your postings *will* appear on Alpine-L, both of them (the one 
above, and the one below).
 > 

Harry Dewey, listowner, Alpine-L
For information, send the command INFO to Alpine-L-request@nic.surfnet.NL
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> > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:58:57 -0800
> From: Duncan McAlpine <duncan.g.mcalpine@boeing.com>
> Subject: RE: Starting a Rock Garden
> 
> Harry Dewey wrote [to John Adney, on "Perennials"]:
> >
> > So I STRONGLY recommend that you join the North American Rock Garden
> > Society, which has a good many members in Iowa, though at present there
> > is no local group (if there were, you would find going to meetings and
> > talking to fellow-members one of the very best ways of getting help).
> > You might even want to travel to meetings of the nearby Minnesota Chapter
> > or to those of the Wisconsin-Illinois chapter.
> >
> > And, of course, we'd be glad to have you join Alpine-L.  Good luck with
> > the rock garden.
> >
> > Harry Dewey
> 
> Hi Harry,
> Alpine-l is a very educaitonal mailing list. It is alittle beyond the
> normal gardener like myself.  I am still trying to figure out what is
> defined as a alpine so I don't post none realated material.
> 
deletions to save space
> 
> Duncan
> 
> - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> End of perennials DIGEST V2 #47
> *******************************
> 
Alpine-L accepts postings about ANY plant in which ANY gardener 
might be interested in planting in any part of the garden, whether in the 
rock garden or nearby.  There is no plant that we deem unsuitable for 
Alpine-L postings.  We DO reject spam, but nothing else.   --HD

Listowners, Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society:
Active: Louise Parsons & Harry Dewey; Quiet: Eric Gouda & Alexej Borkovec
To join Alpine-L, send the message INFO to Alpine-L-Request@nic.surfnet.NL
All Alpine-L members should use that address for Louise OR Harry, please.

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