On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Kenneth Stagg 
wrote:

>
> I'm not one who works hard to limit my online exposure and I'm OK with
> Facebook, but I prefer email lists for hobby/interest based community.
> This format makes it easy to pick out a portion of one or more
> preceding messages to highlight and/or respond to them.  It also, at
> least with continuing encouragement from the list moms (great job,
> folks!) to prune quoted text, seems to help us reply thoughtfully
> rather than just dashing off a quick note. It's nice that I can come
> back to the list from an absence and go back through my email to find
> where I left off and pick it up again.  And having the messages in my
> Oldtools email folder makes it simple to search through it for
> previously posted information.
>
> In the end I'm here not just for information but for the community
> we've built


I am with Ken on this one.  I am a member of exactly one FB group (with
some of you all), and it drives me batty.  Trying to find stuff one day
later is a bear, much less a week or two.  Thank goodness for Chris and the
archives.

I avoid Saw Mill Creek and Lumberjocks for daily reading, too dang
fragmented.  Occasionally a search will take me to a thread there, and a
lot of you good and knowledgeable people are there too, which helps answer
questions.  But not something I want to participate in daily.

And there are those FB people who delete a post after you've answered their
question so no one else gets the benefit.

And those who think sand blasting and disk grinders are great ways to clean
up tools.

The only good sides to the FB group are that there are a lot of
un-knowledgeable people out there buying tools that I already know about,
and can answer their questions.  And since its a bit more diverse that WW,
I see a lot of different tools, and get to have fun looking up what they
are.  (Since traffic is down here, I use my free time there.)

Which is why I am still here after almost 18 years (guessing).  You guys
and gals are great, both as Wood workers and as people.

-- 
Kirk Eppler in HMB, CA, no IT saw or Maroon galoot hat to reference, though
I do have a YBIP to restore one day soon.