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["Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>]

 Hi All,

I think The comment I saw about being careful about changing the character of 
the organization requires some careful thought.  I have tended not to read 
much of what Dr. Parmar writes because much of it seems so irrelevant to me 
or there is not enough info to tell whether it is relevant or not.  Do we 
need to try and stay within certain climatic limits and if so what are they?  
I read and enjoy the California rare fruit grower magazine partly because 
some of it is useful and the other part seems like fruit tourism.  However 
some of that is due to the color photos that Pomona doesn't have.

Martha

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jwlehman@aol.com
>Sent: Feb 12, 2008 3:16 PM
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Cc: natelson@pipeline.com, lostman_amiga@yahoo.com, 
>martha_davis@highstream.net
>Subject: Electronic Pomonas
>
>Hi Barry,
>
>Five minutes after I sent this you e/m came. 
>
>Here is want Nate, Martha, Robert I & started discussing. We should bring 
>you 
>into the conversation also.
>
>Nate wrote and I insereted in blue. 
>
>>  Of the other suggestions, I think we do need to have an online version 
>> for 
>> people abroad who want to join but think the subscription price per year 
>> is 
>> too high.  I would be easy to put Pomona into pdf, and mail it to the 
>> Mulla 
>> Omar, for example, who has paid a 5 or 10$ a year subscription.  The 
>> problem 
>> would be how to prevent the Mulla from then sending it to all the people 
>> in 
>> his village for free, or back to the United States or Canada at a cut rate 
>> to 
>> people who want it here.  Essentially, that is what is done in China with 
>> CDs. 
>> I share the same concern. How long would it be before we found out if such 
>> were going on? We could try it and if that became a problem simply cancel 
>> that 
>> member's membership (then another might take his place) or even the 
>> program 
>> of electronic Pomona's. But I believe Jackie can create PDF's just by the 
>> push of the button. How about just sending it on a disk? Still an 
>> unscrupulous 
>> character could also copy it electronically and e/m out. 
>
>I'd have no problem giving it a try and make it known the program is subject 
>to cancellation with maybe six months notice. Having more members especially 
>foreign members might increase the number of articles. But I really doubt 
>that 
>as most would be afraid of their authoring abilities in English. 
>
>Jerry
>
> 
>
>
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