At 03:50 PM 4/16/96 -0700, you wrote:
>to robert, walter and the others,
>
>hey you bunch of babies, when are you going to stop teasing each
>other?  if you want to continue doing these childish taunts, please
>do so privately and stop wasting the time of the other readers of the
>list with this drivel.
>
>this is the kind of nonsense that makes lists go out of business.
>
 
The whole thing sounds more in earnest to me than teasing. However
well said John.  I have been on other lists where there was an awful
lot of discension and this is real bad news.  I feel that this list
does not need the discension, nor in truth can the list afford it.
In my short time on this list I have come to some conclusions.
 
First people, bees and beekeeping worldwide are in crisis.  Not just from
the standpoint of economics for the beekeepers, but consider world wide
agriculture without bees domestic or feral.
 
Secondly this list is comprised of less than six hunderd people world
wide.  I do not know how many beekeepers there are world wide, however
I would believe that the members of the list comprise only a small portion
of that group. I do not know where the solutions will come from, but I
think some of them will go out through the net and this list to the rest of
beekeeperdom.
 
Mans collective knowledge/information has always been one of his greatest
tools.  The net and the list allow us to leverage this tool to a very high
degree, and we may need all the leverage we can get to control diseases and
pests in domestic bees. Knowledge/information from the net and the list will
have a great bearing on the crisis.
 
So for as trite as it sounds we should be like the bees, working together
in resonable harmony for the common good.  I have said my piece now I will
wait for your response good or bad.
 
Thank You
 
Jeffrey R. Tooker