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  • From: "Greg Miller" <gsmiller@cet.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] membership and this forum
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:29:41 -0800

Robert,

One word describes the issue of NAFEX membership as a
prerequisite to membership on this list: AMBIVALENCE.

There are NAFEX members adamantly opposed to use of a list
*with the NAFEX name* by those who are not NAFEX members.
Others think there should be more open discussion, with the idea
being to utilize the broadest base of expertise. There have been
SPECIFIC exception granted for members of other fruit culitivation
organizations, including BCFTA and Oregon Home Orchard Society
(sorry if I got that last name a little bit off.)

It may be the natural evolution of dissemination of information to
move to an electronic means, but the interests of those who pay
dues to NAFEX and who don't subscribe to this list need to be
respected too. Most people find this list because they belong to
NAFEX. In many ways it is a service of NAFEX. There are
legitimate concerns that taken to an absurd extreme, contributions
to this list may diminish submissions to POMONA, which is the
official publication of NAFEX.

As long as this list uses the NAFEX name some balance needs to
be exercised, and to date publicizing this list has been one of the
concessions. Although there isn't any way to completely contain
any information on the internet, there isn't an easy way to find this
list outside of the info in POMONA.

It isn't an accident that this list has ALWAYS been unlisted in its
various incarnations on onelist, egroups, and now yahoo.
Circumventing that practice by publicizing this list through other
routes may raise the risk of more heated discussions regarding the
rules for inclusion on this list, which always carries the risk of a
more restrictive policy.

The dues for NAFEX are pretty minimal. I don't lose any sleep that
referring someone who has a genuine interest on fruit cultivation to
join NAFEX is overly demanding. The other thing people should
consider is that there is still a lot of good stuff that shows up in
POMONA that never makes it to this list.

Greg Miller

On 11 May 2001, at 14:44, Robert H. wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> On occasion I bump into people on the net who are looking for info
> general fruit growing or a specific fruit issue. I usually tell them
> to look at the NAFEX website and think about joining if your serious
> about it. I hope this is a way of helping in the payback of all the
> info I got from this group. But I havent mentioned the onlin forum but
> once.
>
> I know when I first joined this forum there didnt seem to be any
> membership requirements. I dont know what the rules are about this
> forum. Will it be ok if I tell non-members about this forum, or do
> you all wish to keep this forum for memebers only?
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>





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