Re: Please Everyone

I must say that I think as owner of this list Duncan can guide it as he
thinks appropriate - always accepting that having set up such a useful list
which so many people find valuable he has thereby taken on a certain
responsibility to us too. But if he doesn't like the way we use the list it
he can say so, and if we don't like the way he manages the list anyone can
simply unsubscribe (and set up a different list if they feel like it). But
here's no excuse for f--- words in this situation.

Personally, I don't at all mind seeing requests for sources of seed for
individual plants being posted any more than news of good catalogues being
posted simply because someone wants to make a good source better known. But
if Duncan feels this is outside the scope of the list then I'll certainly
not take offfence and unsubscribe.

Without Duncan there would be no list. If you don't like the way it's run,
email him privately with a rational argument for change. Or start a new
list.

Graham Rice
Northamptonshire, UK

>> Please, when you post to the mailing list, try your best to provide
>>educational information or submit a requests pertaining to
>>propagatation/germinatation of a certain plant.
>>
>> This mailing list is not a seed source mailing list.  If you request a
>>certain seed, it is "required" you provide the germination process for
>>that seed.
>>
>> When I request this from our members, I always get hate mail.
>>
>> I have had people request that  I change the mailing list name to
>>something else.  Like, Not-a-seed-request-list@eskimo.com.  I assume most
>>of you have read the intro about this mailing list before you joined and
>>have noticed that it says nothing about a seed source mailing list.
>>
>> Many of times I feel like dropping this whole mailing list because, it
>>never seems to stay in scope.
>>
>> I am looking into different avenues to resolve unsubscribing issues and
>>possibilities of monitoring the mailing list. I am getting tired of
>>fighting the battle.
>>
>> If you would like to help, do what I do sometimes.   Sure I might know
>>an answer or two to some of the questions which I submit.... but does
>>everyone on the mailing list understand my posted thread?   To create
>>interest within the mailing list, I generate questions to provide a spark
>>of life.
>>
>> I give up.
>>
>> For responses which only supports one person, please send the response
>>to the author of the post, not the whole mailing list.
>>
>> listowner.
>>
>> Please read
>> http://www.backyardgardener.com/seed.html
>>
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