On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 14:19:35 -0500, "Jim Lewis"
wrote:


"madgardener" wrote in message
...
I visited GardenWeb the other day. Interesting. LOTS of
diversified topics
concerning all sorts of plants. Even some forums with
specifics, like
Gardening in Tennessee. And a place for new forums, made me
think ....hmmmm
a lot of us from Wreck.gardens could visit there and smooze and
name the
forum "rec.garden refugees" or maybe back yard chatting from
the
neighborhood of rec.garden" there are no restrictions other
than language.
and 99% of us are pretty good at that anyway out of common
respect. I've not
given up on wreck.gardens, just thought it was interesting.
my two cents worth.
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking
English
Mountain in Eastern Tennessee zone 7, Sunset zone 36 who has
subscribed to
GardenWeb (it's free but they don't mind a donation to help run
things even
more efficiently if yer inclined)



The guy that runs the forums (fora?) on GW has the reputation of
being rather dictatorial. I sometimes (rarely) visit the bonsai
group there, but so many of the questions are about "mallsai"
(supermarket "bonsai") the visits usually are brief.

And web-based boards are clumsy.

FWIW

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.


If you want to chat, use a chat client .. mIRC and pick an IRC network
to go to and start a channel. There is already a channel ..
#gardening on undernet (the # sign designates a channel name. You get
on an undernet server typing: /server us.undernet.org will get
you on any available undernet server and typing /join #gardening
will put you into the channel. If you want to start a channel that
doesn't already exist, they "joining" it by typing /join
#channelname it'll put you in that channel. First person joining a
channel is an Op, .. someone with @ in front of their nick is an op..
someone capable of bestowing the @ crown to others. Be careful who
you bestow ops on as they could then boot you out and ban you so you
can't get back into your own channel. But that being aside it's the
best chat environment, as that's what it was made for. www.mirc.com
read the irc primer if it's unfamiliar to you.

Janice