[pct-l] On Topic/Off Topic

[Lonetrail at aol.com]

My opinion:
 
Been on this list for about six years give or take a copy. This is they way  
I see it."BJ" That is Before Journals when one had a chance by daily recording 
 either by writing or tapping or just memory would send experiences to 
another  source friend or relative or wait until they got of trail where it was then 
 posted on PCT-L. This was hot right of the press action news. One could set 
down  and read their events and visualize their experiences.
 
Recently Snug wrote of his experience  on bush whacking across the  High 
Sierras. Big time article Paul Magnetite is doing the same on the CDT.  Deene 
always has interesting episodes. Wayne Craft articles could make  Backpacker's 
Magazine. This is the way it use to be. Now when one come off the  trail they 
enter it into their journal and after weeks they give us their web  site. I would 
rather have it bit by bit, honestly I don't have time to set down  and read a 
complete journals. Lets just have some revues of your journal as you  write.
 
Then the over the hill gang  will have something to do.  besides bull shiting.
 
Lonetrail
 
In a message dated 10/2/2006 2:09:37 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
wayneskraft at comcast.net writes:

I don't  know if you've noticed it or not, but this venerable e-mail  
list  appears to be terminally ill.  Only bland posts relating to the   
PCT nuts and bolts (water here, none there;  saw so-and-so in  Section  
E yesterday; can you buy Heet at El Cajon? etc.) seem to  pass  
muster.  With this obvious exception, I've stopped posting  to this  
list.  Even though I've been monitoring it for 3 years,  I can't tell  
what is acceptable and what isn't.  Any humorous  banter or  
controversial subject matter is subject to censure by the  nattering  
nabobs of negativity.  Recently the topic of forest  fires was banned  
on this list.  This is inconceivable to  me.  I can't imagine a topic  
more relevant and pressing to  anyone who hikes the PCT.  At the  
moment, I would say that the  banter initiated by Reinhold and  
Switchback is about all that keeps  this list alive.  Data is useful,  
a chuckle is  priceless.

The email list format is just about deceased  everywhere.  I think  
only the glory of the PCT itself and the  vast personal store of  
knowledge possessed by some of the  subscribers has kept this email  
list alive so late in the  game.  The PCT, as a topic, could certainly  
support an internet  discussion forum and a few rather lame attempts  
have been made to  create such a resource in the past.  The only one  
with a  half-decent format was created by a person whose contributions  
to  this list have been so incessantly negative that apparently no one   
has any desire to participate.

What the PCT needs is something like  this, but I haven't the  
technical expertise to create  it:

http://portlandhikers.com/default.aspx

Wayne  Kraft
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