Cohousing-L Mailing List: Alternate places to discuss cohousing during shut down

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

Regarding alternate places to discuss cohousing during shut down
of cohousing-L which starts soon and may last a 2-3 weeks:

Barry Krusch suggested USENET  newgroups
alt.co-ops   OR    alt.intentional-community

Alt.co-ops has been had some overlap with cohousing-L
tho has not had much discussion of cohousing that I am aware of;
Jim Kingdon who is active on alt.co-ops did subscribe to cohousing-L
for a while. I think their FAQ has a section on cohousing. Alt.co-ops
had 5 messages from the last 5 days when I checked it and they were all
on topic.


I've never seen the newsgroup alt.intentional-community and
the two news servers I tried did not have the alt.intentional-community
newsgroup tho I did find a reference to "the intentional communities
newsgroup" in a message on the alt.housing.nontrad (see below).


Maybe the best newsgroup would be alt.housing.nontrad .
>From it's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) posted Tue Jan 16, 1996
by boutell [at] netcom.com (Thomas Boutell) (Last-modified: 1994/06/01)

   1.2: Then what is alt.housing.nontrad about?
          This group was formed to discuss nontraditional housing. I had
          new ideas such as cohousing (see below) in mind when I created
          it. The group is meant for discussion of both alternative
          _households_ (multigenerational housing, which was once the
          norm, multifamily housing with shared recreational spaces, even
          Nerd Houses...) and alternative _houses_ (which I didn't have
          in mind at first, but I agree they're perfectly relevant to the
          group).

When I checked it there were 9 messages posted from the last 5 days tho
about half of them were off topic.

I think I would encourgage using alt.housing.nontrad for cohousing
discussion.  If substantial cohousing discussion takes place on these
newsgroups and someone captures it to a file, I would be interesting
in putting it in the cohousing-L archive.  Contact me.  (In general
Usenet newsgroups are not archived.)

Fred



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