[GSBN] Fresh enthusiasm; and another four nominations

[Bill Christensen]

On 2/27/14 8:10 PM, Frank Tettemer wrote:
> 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.
>
> In an effort to leave no stones unturned, I would like to nominate the 
> following:
>
> Dawn Marie Smith
> Anna Wolfson
> Michael Henry
> Emily Rydell Niehaus
>
> I'd also like to apologize to any of the people, nominated above, who 
> are reading this right now,
> because, they are already on this list!
> I just didn't know.
>
Dawn and Emily are already here.

Anna, Michael, and Liz Johndrow are not yet (or they're unidentified 
non-contributors at the moment).

I'll need their email addresses or better still they can sign up by 
following the link at the bottom of http://sustainablesources.com/GSBN/, 
and then let me now and I can make them contributing members.

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.

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).

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.

But I'd want to hear a decisive decision one way or the other from the 
majority of you.