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  • From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: Nafex membership
  • Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:07:16 -0000

I strongly disagree with idea of splitting the Nafex list. It would
just lead to the Balkanization of the Nafex list. The power (IMHO)
of this list is the combination of amateurs, professionals, small and
large growers. Just because I don't experience other fruit-growers
environment or conditions doesn't mean I can't enjoy hearing their
experience or learn from it. For example, I don't believe I'll ever
live in Florida, but I still found Dan H. experiments with grafting
Blueberry onto Farkleberry extremely interesting.

With Nafex and Interest Groups everyone is suscribed to POMONA and if
they also want to participate in Interest Groups they can (and the
Interest Groups at least sometimes report back into POMONA). If we
create multiple lists, there's nothing guarenteeing that everyone
will still be "suscribed" to the main list and we might lose valuable
input or stories from participants.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

<<On the other hand... The fact that we are LIMITED as yet to just
ONE hodge podge forum creates various obvious problems.


People wanting to discuss apricot culture for example have to listen
to diatrabs about "Online vs. Print"... and this and various other
debates.


I think this is just a matter of "elbow room"... we need to generate
MORE forums or lists on a diversity of topics... The apricot
enthusiast can join the apricot list...


New members might be directed to an introducory list called "New to
NAFEX" or some such... There could even be a "Policy" list for the
kind of "internal" discussion and debate going on here.


Just as NAFEX has various "Interest groups" the same thing could be
accomplished through this (or another) electronic forum. But it needs
to be EXPANDED not restricted or limited.
>>






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