Re: private e-mails vs group response

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The problem with private e-mails is that the group  is denied the basic or

advanced knowledge with is included in the post -- or the 'seed' of a concept

which might 'sprout' in a year or two. 

I met up with someone from another list who remembered be from my 'garden of

refrigerators' that I had to use in back of one of the houses I was fixing up

because the soil was simply 'sand' from an what had been the shore of a VERY old

lake bed.  It absolutely HAD to be rehabilitated along with the house.  They

mentioned what an ingenious idea it was - and how it allowed their family to

'farm good soil' rather than the 'rock encased in red clay soil' they had in

their yard (Arkansas I think).  Who knows WHERE or HOW an idea will come to

fruitation?

Right now I'm thinking seriously about growing Wasabi from something posted here

several years ago.  It just took awhile to rattle around and sink into the

unconscious from whence the idea was formed nearly fully formed!!! And at

current market prices of $50-$150 a pound for low-grade " Oka " Wasabi and from

$150-$350 for the higher grade, fresh moving water grown  'Sawa' Wasabi -- it

seems a well worth while period of germination.  (With Wasabi that expensive,

most of what you get here in the states is horseradish with food coloring). 

and the 'roots' you can buy have had the 'eyes' cut out -- like buying a potato

with the intent of forcing growth from the eyes so you don't have to spend the

money for a special one in the store, only to find that the 'eyes' that produce

other potatoes have been cut out -- that's what you get on the 'open' market now

.. . .  

So private E-mails might make some really happy, I like to see and follow the

discussions in the open, and chose to read not by the subject line which often

seldom changes, but by what the person is saying - And, yeah, I, too, have

posted private e-mails to a group when I compose in Word - which seems to no

longer format like it used to -- and in the cut-n-paste process, I lose track of

what goes where -- I've even cross posted in lists by mistake more than once - I

figure when others do that I learn even more.

But then, I'm addicted to knowledge -- learning it and passing it along -- so I

like open e-mails.  Unless it really IS private.  Then private is necessary.

-- paul --

 

Dream Well. Travel Well.  May you Walk Your Path in Beauty.

" Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " Carl Sagan.

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>To: " sproutpeople " <sproutpeople >

>Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 2:25 PM

>Subject: Re: I Agree With Carolyn

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>YES!!!!  Please " private message " each other.  I have been a member of this

group for several years and I usually just delete blocks of messages without

reading, because of history of the lack of valid pertinent information by

certain posters.  I hate wading through the untold rubbish that gets posted

here.   There are only one or two writers whose messages are worth

reading.        

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>To: sproutpeople

>Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:08 PM

>Subject: I Agree With Carolyn

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>I have been inundated with all these Sprout People emails that are not about

>sprouts. Can you " private message " each other for the extracurricular

>stuff? I hate wading through 20 emails to get one piece of good

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>Anita

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