Re: Deteriorating List


     I couldn't agree more Marv.  

--- Lubadub@aol.com wrote:
> Maybe I have been a member of the list for too long? Maybe I am just not
> with 
> it? Maybe Duncan has gotten through to me? However, I am beginning to feel 
> that this site has turned into a combination of chat room/seed lottery.
> When 
> we first started it was not that way. It was mostly questions and answers 
> about how to grow the "big one." There was at times disagreement but
> nothing 
> really personal. It seems to me that somewhere along the line money was 
> introduced. Selling seeds to maybe cover the cost of postage and then fund 
> raising and then direct sales. Along with this came negativity and more and
> 
> more personal posting and chatting which really seemed out of place but now
> 
> prevails. I got a lot from this list. I learned more than I could have 
> anywhere else. May and the beginning of the growing season in North America
> 
> is almost upon us. Most of us are residing in this region. Maybe we could
> all 
> get "back to the basics?"
> 
> Marv in Altoona, PA
> 
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