Re: list server discussion

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• To: perennials@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: list server discussion
• From: B* A* <b*@sbt.net>
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 19:52:17 -0500
• References: <81FB4B521FCED011B2730080C85AE2250CB3@exchserver.rbg.ca>

Dennis Eveleigh wrote:
> 
> Alex Teller wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if it were not more productive for everybody to send these
> > personal messages directly to the recipients instead of using mailing
> > lists and clogging everybody's email?  Let's hear from all of you
> > wonderful gardeners in order to establish some sort of consensus,
> before
> > the list owner steps in.
> 
> In response Bob Asmear wrote:
> 
> >  I hate to even clutter the list up with a response but.......
> >  I don't think there are that many messages of this nature to worry
> about.
> >  Besides this list is not inudated with alot of traffic.  It is real
> easy to
> >  hit the delete key when you see that a topic does not interest you.
> I think
> >  too many people spend too much time worry about these little things
> which in
> >  turn ends up causing more traffic than the original messages in
> question.
> 
> NOW I RESPOND:
> 
> I am a professional horticulturalist who is responsible for curating
> perennial collections at a major botanical garden. I joined this list
> server because I hoped to participate in interesting discussions related
> to perennial plants.  So far most of the discussion has been on plants
> that are not considered "perennials" in the current sense of the word.
> Also I agree with Alex.  A large amount of the "talk" is social related
> to reporting on how each other's gardens are doing or aimed at one
> specific person.  Also, I am not really interested in hearing that
> someone left their most recent issue of Martha Stewart Living at work.
> I get alot of email during the day and to get so much irrelevant email
> from this list server has caused me after on week of "listening" to try
> to unsubscribe.   I am a member of another list server where relevant
> questions are asked and discussed with little social chatter.  I suggest
> that if members want to discuss non-perennial plant topics that they
> also join other list servers that are topic specific or more general.
> You will lose the subscribers who are truly interested in perennials if
> you do not limit the discussion to this area.
> 
> Dennis Eveleigh
> Curator of Perennials
> Royal Botanical Gardens
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Dennis
	If you would please reread your letters I said if we are going to use
this list for private chit chat we might as well use it to order pizza.
Bob
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