North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["Erdman, James" <erdmanj@uwstout.edu>]

I miss the paper Pomona.  I find that I don't follow forums that I have to 
log into, but can access email forums like this one much better.  To use the 
official NAFEX forum I have to remember my user name and password after 
remembering forum URL and finding the forum in the list on the homepage.  
None of this is convenient to me, so I don't remember to look at the official 
forum unless I am reminded of it by a discussion such as this one.  I must 
have missed a discussion somewhere about the end of the paper hard copy 
Pomona, because the change caught me by surprise.  I renewd my membership 
because I thought I had missed an issue (which was a regular occurance due to 
no reminders of lapse of subscription), and then it turned out that the 
Pomona was only on-line--hard to find and difficult to read, too.  

And should this be a world-wide organization or not?  It is the "North 
American" Fruit explorers, and even so I find a lot of discussion unrelated 
to what I can grow in northwestern Wisconsin.  A word-wide focus would mean 
even less information of interest to me, I think.  On the other hand, I would 
hate to see NAFEX disappear.

Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI