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[Megan Lynch <spidra@gmail.com>]

There has been story after story of Facebook, Google, et al misusing
user data, disrespecting privacy rights, etc. I'd really like to see
more user-owned resources to protect people from this sort of thing.

I think an email list on a service/server which seems trustworthy is a
smart move. And from what you're saying, it seems affordable. I don't
know what NAFEX's budget is, but I think it likely makes sense to
restrict list membership to NAFEX members only (which does not at the
current time include me). The only difficulty I foresee with this from
my prior experience with other group management is that a volunteer
will have to square the NAFEX email membership list with the paid
NAFEX membership list at regular intervals, at least monthly.

I think the archives are a very important source of information. One
of the advantages of an email list is that people can save messages
from the time they've been members of the list, at least if they're
willing to dedicate the hard drive space to it. But for anything
people weren't around for, the archives are great.

Thanks to all who’ve been volunteering their time for this list and been so
free with it all these years so far.

Megan Lynch
South Pasadena, CA
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