North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Should Nafex, Inc. own, control and run this list?
It is obvious that Facebook is not particularly useful for hosting a fruit
growers forum.
The excellent Growing Fruit forum and knowledgebase is a private and
probably commercial venture. Will it be useful and available in the future?
Nafex would have to go to a lot of trouble and expense to set up a forum
for members in house. This list is free, public and run by volunteers.
It will be around as long as ibiblio is and if that changes it can migrate
to groups.io for a list as good as ibiblio's (and unlike Google Groups,
doesn't require some kind of Google account)
and with the capacity to service unlimited members and provide ten
gigabytes of storage, all for a modest monthly fee of $10.00.

Should this list be turned over to Nafex, if they want it?
If that was done would they require Nafex membership for all subscribers,
unlike its present status of allowing anyone to join?
Would they make the message archives private (i.e. a private list). If so
Google would no longer index the archives and searches would not be possible
plus all subscribers would have to log in with name and password to read
the archives.

I need one or more persons to co own this list with me. The list needs to
continue in one form or another into the future.
I need someone to run it when I am no longer available as a volunteer.

I think most of you would like to use this nafex list indefinitely. The
main message archives from their beginning to the present contain a wealth
of information.
They are located here and go all the way back to 2000:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex/. There are three other sites
with nafex message archives:
1) Current, active, ongoing, combined with the permaculture list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/permaculturelist but does not have
early messages.
2) This one has a message base that is much earlier, 2011, but stops around
2016: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nafexlist
3) There is a blog that is a mirror archive for this list, currently active
and ongoing: http://ifneb.blogspot.com/   (IFNEB = International Fruit &
Nut Breeders & Enthusiasts)
This is nice format for viewing posts, much like a webforum, and has
today's posts and archives dating back to 2014

Feedback welcome.

Lawrence
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