of NAFEX). They lucked into ibiblio as a host for their new forum. (Ibiblio
has nothing
whatsoever to do with NAFEX, or indeed any other of the hundreds of special
interest groups
who use their - free - service. It is a public service run by "a
collaboration of the Center for
the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill". They
take no interest
in the actual content, but provide the infrastructure to host the storage and
distribution of this
content. Now, the forum was to serve the function of information exchange
for NAFEX
members, so it was, quite reasonably, named "nafex.iblio". However, owing to
the nature of
ibiblio, which is completely open, subscriptions to the forum were not
restricted to dues-
Now we get to the meat. My own feeling is that a listserv serves this
specific need better
than a web-based forum which requires logging in, and Midfex might be wise to
let NAFEX
be the test of this. That is, wait awhile before going down this road, and
see whether NAFEX
actually can make a go of it. And, no, "the NAFEX administrator" is not
planning anything
one way or another in terms of keeping the iblio forum going, because it is
not hers to
exercise any control of. It belongs to ibiblio, and they have neither
incentive to make any
changes, nor expressed intention of doing so.
And, as a wholly gratuitous comment, my personal feeling is that NAFEX, (and
Midfex!) might
be better carving out a "market" in things that are not served by any other
entity, rather than
trying to compete for a function that may be better served by some other
entity.
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