Re: [Paddlewise] Sea Kayaking Listservers

At 01:58 AM 3/11/01 -0800, Doug Lloyd wrote:
>ralph diaz said:
>
>- ----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Fereira" <jaf30_at_cornell.edu>
>> At 11:22 PM 3/9/01 -0900, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
>> >Paddlewise is such a great source of information I started wondering
>if
>> >there are any other good listservs oriented towards sea kayaking.
>>
>> If paddlewise is such a great source of information why would you
>*need*
>> another good listserv oriented towards sea kayaking?
>
>There is nothing better overall than PaddleWise but there are different
>ones
>around meeting specialized purposes.

Thanks to Doug and Ralph for pointing out the knee-jerkiness of my response
to the query about other paddling forums.   They are, of course, correct in
pointing out that there are quite a few really good specialized forums out
there.
For specific topics the Nick's boat building BBS,  a folding boat forum, and
regional lists are definately worth checking out.   In my defense, however, I
was responding to the query about other forums oriented towards "sea
kayaking", in 
general.   I am quite familiar with rec.boats.paddle.touring and was part
of the
group that helped write the charter and I wish that it had the traffic and
sense of
community that can be found in Paddlewise.

I hope that my response did not seem rash so perhaps an explanation of where
it came from will help.  I have been using the Internet for 17 years and
participating
in usenet newsgroups and mailing lists for that long.   I witnessed the
birth of
the world wide web.   Since then it seems everyone wants to try to "build a
better
mousetrap", or at least "another mousetrap".    My point was simply "how many
discussion forums oriented toward sea kayaking" do we really need?

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