North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[david.maxwell@dal.ca]

Deb's comment about the email listserv kind of slipped by without people 
noticing.  This 
listserv is an interesting phenomenon.  Despite the name, it actually has no 
official 
relationship to NAFEX at all.  It is hosted by the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
one of a very large number of "public domain" distribution lists managed by 
them in the public 
interest, and is neither moderated, controlled by, nor indeed associated with 
NAFEX in any 
way, (other than that a former NAFEX member got it set up). Given this, 
obviously the 
membership in the list is equally divorced from NAFEX as an organisation - 
anybody can join, 
and in fact, at least in Canada, the majority of members are not NAFEX 
members at all.

The recently created forum is wholly a child of NAFEX.  Only paid-up NAFEX 
members will 
be able to access it.  The contents will not be shared with the email 
listserv, nor vice versa, 
and, since the audience will be different, (anybody in the world for the 
listserv, paid-up 
NAFEX members for the forum), it is likely that the content will similarly 
differ.

> I also prefer email, but options are good.
> 
> Coordinating the two so people who like ail could get forum posts as
> email or vice versa is an interesting idea. 
> 
> Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net> wrote: