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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I totally agree with Derek. Well said
as usual.<br>
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Danny Buck<br>
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On 2/28/14 9:46 AM, Derek Stearns Roff wrote:<br>
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<div>I've changed the subject line, to focus on the specific
question of GSBNs future structure. I'm finding it challenging
to follow this topic mixed in with other questions. </div>
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<div>I favor continuing GSBN as it is. I think it serves a
valuable and unique niche. Our members have differing needs, and
GSBN serves some of those needs well. In my view, we have
created an important community on GSBN, that I want to maintain.
The fact that the list is quiet for weeks at a time is a
virtue. It allows important mutual support and high-level
discussion on topics when needed, and isn't a burden during the
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<div>Facebook serves other needs and other forms of use. The
Strawbale list on Facebook has existed for I don't know how
long- more than a year. It has more than 1,100 members. Some
members of GSBN are on the Facebook SB list, and everyone could
be, if they wanted to be. But closing GSBN would not enhance
the Facebook group, it would just eliminate the unique community
that we have here. You can't have this kind of community and
interaction on a list with Facebook's level of traffic, member
quantity, and mix of topics and postings. Facebook is great for
reaching a lot of people in a fairly superficial way. That is
important, but it isn't the only thing that is important. GSBN
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<div>On Feb 27, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:</div>
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<div>On 2/27/14 8:10 PM, Frank Tettemer wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Tony, that was a wake up for me. I
hadn't even considered Liz might not be on the list. And
so I began to consider who else might not be on the list.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">In an effort to leave no stones
unturned, I would like to nominate the following:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Dawn Marie Smith<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Anna Wolfson<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Michael Henry<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Emily Rydell Niehaus<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I'd also like to apologize to any of
the people, nominated above, who are reading this right
now,<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">because, they are already on this
list!<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I just didn't know.<br>
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Dawn and Emily are already here.<br>
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Anna, Michael, and Liz Johndrow are not yet (or they're
unidentified non-contributors at the moment).<br>
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I'll need their email addresses or better still they can
sign up by following the link at the bottom of
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href="http://sustainablesources.com/GSBN/">http://sustainablesources.com/GSBN/</a>,
and then let me now and I can make them contributing
members.<br>
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Regarding the idea of combining lists: I definitely
support putting the bioenergy and SBRUs lists together. It
seems they've been redundant since shortly after the REPP
list cratered for a while, SBRUs was created, and then REPP
was reconstituted.<br>
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The original reason for GSBN's existence was that those
lists were bale-hammered on a regular basis by well meaning
newbies. Us old codgers (experience-wise, not necessarily
chronologically) got tired of repeating the same answers
again and again, and a bunch of the really knowledgeable old
codgers got too busy working on codes and other big-picture
stuff to wade into the fray often, if at all. GSBN became
the place for 'higher level' discussions regarding the
strawbale movement, techniques, etc. And it has proven to
work very well for that over the many years (since 1998 at
least).<br>
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If y'all are of a mind to open GSBN to everyone (and I know
some of you have been for a fair while), or to combine it
with some new SB überlist I'm cool with that too. Opening
to all just involves a couple clicks of my all-powerful
mouse. Combining lists can be a little more difficult
(archive transfers and all that) but is not impossible.<br>
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But I'd want to hear a decisive decision one way or the
other from the majority of you.<br>
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