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[Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>]

Oh I read it. I want to see a better argument against the email list 
than that somebody thinks it is "antique". (I'm not saying there are no 
better arguments; I just haven't seen any yet that convinced me. 
Opinions will vary, I'm sure.)

Of course, you're posting this to a group in which the word "antique" 
(as in "antique apple") is most often a compliment.


On Feb 17, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Robert Mullins wrote:

> Amen brother, hopefully 'Roads End' is reading this as well.
>
> -rob
>
> rooting wrote:
> > Having read several comments about the listserver which NAFEX
> > uses, the current technology used by NAFEX is antique. The
> > most groups do not use e-mail for delivery. Rather they have a current
> > flow of information by topic using a board typically used by blogs.
> >
> > Off topic, I have contributed to and frequently visit the mandolincafe
> > http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi
> > Mandolincafe is a specialty 'group' of people interested in playing
> > the mandolin. Soon they will have their 500,000th posting.
> >
> > I suggest that the NAFEX webmaster(s) take a look at Mandolincafe
> > which uses a free program from
> > http://www.ikonboard.com/
> > This program can be used on the http://nafex.org
> > <http://nafex.org/> server