Live on line pumpkin discussions?

Mike & Pumpkins,

Yes there are personal communicators which can be downloaded free, such as
ICQ or Pow Wow. As you point out these tools allow you to talk privately or
in a group discussion real time. Next best thing to a phone call but free, I
agree.  Perhaps one of the pumpkin web page hosts
could provide a spot for downloading such tools and link for on line pumpkin
discussions in addition to the e-mail group? I don't know how this will go
over with the group but it may allow some ease in solving immediate problems
during the growing season. You could go on line see who else is on line
"discussion group", join the discussion and pose your question or problem.
Just a though!

Chris
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>Duncan,
>
>I don't think suggesting the group try and limit it's public postings to
>appropriate material would qualify you as an a**hole. Excessive emails
>use up server resources. Once you retrieve your emails from the mail
>server, these documents are stored on your local system. This is a waste
>of disk space. You need to manually delete each one from the 'Inbox' and
>then the 'Deleted' folders to free up this space. This is a waste of
>time. I have suggested before using some sort of message prioritization
>scheme and still believe in this.
>
>As this list grows ( as I am sure it will ) a natural extension might be
>the use of a chat room. There are many out there, some of which have
>gardening themes. For those of you who have never used one, it basically
>allows you to 'chat' online in real time to one or more other users at a
>time. I am sure it would be a kick for many to be able to 'chat' online
>with some of the heavy hitters of this group. It's the next best thing
>to a phone call (without the cost) and you can send pictures to each
>other as well. The software is free and can be downloaded from the
>service's web page. All we would have to do is agree upon which chat
>room to use and let things progress from there.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>P.S. Don't be too hard on Mike and Carolyn. I know them personally and
>they are great people. Good looking too.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duncan McAlpine [SMTP:mcalpin@eskimo.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 1998 5:38 PM
>> To: GBPUMPKIN; pumpkins@mallorn.com
>> Subject: Re: Your objection - List Owner
>>
>> I would recommend deleting the files.  This is a fun mailing list and
>> it
>> does get out of scope but I have been on other mailing list where the
>> list owner is a total A..hole and I will try and not to act this way
>> on
>> this mailing list.  I might get mad...but I think you all  have seen
>> me
>> in my ups and downs.   Just have fun and read the messages or delete
>> them.  If you don't like reading the out of scope single messages, I
>> would recommend signing on the digest format.
>>
>> Thanks you George for your two cents.
>> --
>> Perennials to Alpines see these nurseries online:
>> Heronswood -  http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/heronswood
>> Mt. Tahoma -  http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/rick
>>
>>
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