Cob: Lets get it back on topic!

[Mark Piepkorn]

	I've been posting way too much here lately. Go for literally years without 
opening my yap, and once I do, there's suddenly no shutting me up. (Nah, 
don't fear, I'll clam up soon enough.)

	There are homesteady-type lists around. Shannon's concern about the 
potential for things to get out of hand volume-wise is well-founded: when I 
stopped following one incredibly busy usenet group of that ilk back around 
'98 or so, it was generating several dozen messages a day. I just sorta 
gave up. That said, it sure is hard not to slide into "off-topic" topics on 
lists like this, precisely because of the organic appropriateness of it.

	If you sign up at http://groups.yahoo.com (carefully - there are reports 
that not checking and dechecking the right checkboxes can result in 
avalanches of spam) and do a search for email lists about "homesteading," 
you'll get 124 email lists. "Homestead" gives 1084 email lists.


	There are so MANY bright, funny, earth-friendly people around - when are 
we going to hit critical mass? Maybe we already have, but we're such so 
factionalized and disorganized and specialized that none of us realize it. 
Pity.


	Is there a list for web designers who live in RVs? (I'm not a web 
designer, though I sometimes play one on the internet. Abe Connally, on the 
other hand...)