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[Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca>]

 Dear all, came back from vacation to this very interesting 
conversation about the e-mail list and the NAFEX forum.

I happen to be one of those Canadians who uses the list but is not a 
NAFEX member. I joined the list actually to contact someone after having 
been referred from another fruit growers forum. I happily abandoned that 
forum pretty much for this list, firstly because of the ease of 
the"PUSH" system of e-mail, but mainly because of the quality of the 
discussions and knowledge of the subscribers.

Three years later I have learned an incredible amount from this list 
about all sorts of subjects that I would possibly have never imagined to 
research on a forum (and I do a LOT of internet research).

I too have very little income and am only an amateur backyard grower. 
Therefore, although toying with the idea, I have not subscribed to 
NAFEX, believing that most members, and POMONA contributers for example, 
are professional cultivators who make their living or part of it through 
agriculture.

As a non-member, I realise wholeheartedly that my opinion does not count 
in this debate. But I would say that I would be sad to see the great 
resource that is this list disappear.

Kudos to everyone, I say, who takes their time to share any knowledge 
they have about fruit growing with the rest of us. I thank you.

Caren Kirk
St. Jerome, QC

On 8/14/2011 4:46 PM, david.maxwell@dal.ca wrote:
> 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:
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