[747] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
New Geographical Vegetarian Discussion Lists for North America
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vegetarian Resource Center)
Thu Dec 28 20:31:44 1995
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 20:32:23 -0500
To: vsg@MIT.EDU, seac@MIT.EDU
From: Vegetarian Resource Center <vrc@tiac.net>
In the next few weeks and months, you will be reading
on various vegetarian discussion lists messages from
numerous listowners of vegetarian discussion lists
for municipalities, states, and regions throughout all of
North America. (I will not post this to MIT again.)
This is a chance for each of you who comes to New England
from elsewhere to join a vegetarian discussion list
relating vegetarians (and would-be vegetarians) from your
own geographic area(s).
The goal of this epochal undertaking is to make it possible
for vegetarians in an area to realize, from direct experience,
that "WE ARE NOT ALONE!"
I suspect that, when the project reaches its homeostasis,
its strategic balancing point, that we will have about 80-120
lists - covering every state in the USA and Mexico, and
every province in Canada, plus some locales (New York City,
San Francisco Bay area, Miami, Washington DC, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Boston, etc.
We have posted to public lists before our intention to create
this qualitatively new network of online vegetarians, and
the participants are those who have responded with a vision
to help vegetarian "make connections" - in cyberspace.
I am pleased to be able to tell you that we have a high quality
team of committed vegetarians, many of them vegans, and
that there is still opportunity for some folks to host a list in
her or his or their own state or region.
The technological expertise is located in Minneapolis, MN,
and our hope is that we will be able to backup the system and
develop a method of helping every vegetarian on the continent
with online access make a meaningful cyberspace relationship
with others.
Currently over a dozen regional vegetarian lists are up and running,
waiting for subscribers. Someone from our group will soon be posting
a list of the new lists.
The format for subscribing is
Send the following to waste@waste.org:
In the body:
subscribe veg-XXX (whatever the list is called)
A digest option will be available for all lists, by sending
to the same address, waste@waste.org:
subscribe veg-XXX digest
These lists will probably begin with news of local interest, particularly
events. Postings need not be confined to these, but list policy will
be defined by the list administrator.
I will be happy to respond to any questions about participating
at any level in this project - subscriber, supporter (financial donor?),
administrator, programmer, etc.
The key brain in the project is a guy named Matt,
whom I admire for his intelligence, his technical expertise,
his vision, and his dedication. Address Matt at
oxymoron@waste.org
This is a truly epochal upward and forward development in the
vegetarian movement, allowing us to connect with likeminded
folks, but also to connect with vegetarians near enough to us to
make possible get-togethers, strategic planning, and
a new quality of strategic relationships that will allow our lifestyle
to stabilize psychologically and sociologically among a much broader
group of ordinary vegetarians. Truly we are preparing for the
future that our society really will have.
Maynard S. Clark vrc@tiac.net info@vegetarian.org
Vegetarian Resource Center, P. O. Box 38-1068, Cambridge, MA 02238-1068
617-625-3790 (Voice, or Fax by arrangement) 617-357-2596 (Facsimile)
Listowner:VEG-FL, VEG-NE, VEG-ORG, VEG-PARENT, VEG-REL, VEG-SINGLE, VEG-TEEN
http://www.tiac.net/users/vrc/vrc.html
http://www.tiac.net/users/vrc/maynard.html
