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Cohousing-L is a free, email based mostly US and Canadian discussion about cohousing that was created in late 1992. All 25,000 messages are archived and searchable. Hopefully some summaries and pointers to some of the many discussions in those archives will be will be added below (may also have seperate artcle).

[edit] Finding / Reading noteworthy threads

The 25,000 messages include many threads of ongoing interest but finding them can be a challenge. Below is a list of some noteworthy threads.

The Cohousing-L weekly summary list summarizes at the subject line level. See archives Cohousing-L summary archive

Cohousing Magazine is considering distilling threads see [1].

Searching with the cohousing-L archive search facility - see below.

How one can read these threads depends on how much editing has been done since the thread was posted. A few threads have edited summaries. These could be published in Cohousing Magazine

In general tho one needs to read the thread in the Cohousing-L archives. Sometimes a thread continues under several subject lines so it is desirable to browse other threads posted about the same time. Unfortunately the archive mechanism to get to the date index (of 200 messages) from a given message does not work except for recent messages. The page Archive links by date helps find the right date index.

Another approach is to search the archives. One can search for subject lines with something like:

+subject:Why I like cohousing

But hits are not returned in chronological order if there are variant subject lines it gets complicated.

Another approach would be to list the url's of all related messages on a wiki page. I don't have an example of that here yet.

[edit] Noteworthy threads

  • "Disillusioned with cohousing" June 2006 - Search archives for "*llusioned" without quotes in Cohousing-L archives
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