Date:         Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:11:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: OT: Gardening
Comments: To: Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2006090711480398@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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There are a couple of guitar lists that work well, but the best is the
Double Bass Forum on TalkBass.com.  I think its the personalities involved
really, passionate AND informed being the requisite traits.
On the other hand, the Bass Guitar side of TalkBass is full of the very
worst of the internet; uninformed opinion and name-calling.

There are good people on this list, and damn good gardeners too, Geza!
:-)

Seeya, Jake

On 9/7/06, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I've wondered about this for a long time. Why are there such good lists
> for
> cars and so few for other subjects?
>
> The excellent car lists are based on two factors. First, all the cars in
> question are almost exactly the same, with tiny variations. That makes it
> so
> a list member in Alaska can read a post on an idle stabiliser problem, go
> out to his or her van, and find exactly the same device located at exactly
> the same location  on his engime compartment wall. We automatically  have
> something in common. Second, there are large numbers of these cars
> produced,
> which helps garner a large number of listees. A list dealing with antique
> Wedgewood stove, for example, would satisfy the first requirement, but
> therre are too few in existence to attract a wide following.
>
> Compare this to "gardening," where the variables are almost infinite, and
> a
> list member in Alaska will have nothing in common with one in Arizona.
> It's
> hard to relate to a cactus with pumpkin rot when you're in the Yukon. The
> element of commonality is too general in a "gardening" list.
>
> A list equivalent in specificity to Vanagon.com would be some something
> like, "The ferms in low elevation southern Oregon" group.
>
> I did find a pretty good site on rhododendrons a few years back, but my
> soil
> didn't correspond to theirs...
>



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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com