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[sherwin <sherwindu@att.net>]

On 12/16/2011 9:20 PM, Dr. Chiranjit Parmar wrote:

 Dr. Parmat,

  I do not understand your concerns about Nafex reaching out to
  the world.  Anyone can join either the Ibiblio forum or the forum
  on the Nafex web site.  The Ibiblio forum does not require Nafex
  membership, so money there is not an issue.

  The only decline I see in Nafex is the poor participation on their
  web site forum.  For whatever reason, the Nafex members appear
  to prefer the Ibiblio email based forum.

   I am seeing the same conflict in my other club Midfex, where
   certain people want to replace our Ibiblio forum with a web
   site based one.  I am administrator of the Midfex forum and
   would like to see it continue, as has been done in Nafex.  I am
   seeking some kind of compromise, where there is a division
   between technical discussion and personal messaging.  The former
   for Ibiblio and the later for the web site.  It seems like people have
   definite preferences for one format or the other.  The Midfex
   people with heavy computer experience favor the web site, while
   others like the simplicity of emails on Ibiblio.  I am a retired 
computer
   guy, but I don't like blogs, facebook, twitter, etc., and I find the 
Ibiblio
   forums perfectly adequate.  It will be interesting to see how this all
   plays out.

                               Sherwin Dubren