Re: SPECIES: why here? germanica

Perhaps we might want the lists combined?  There seems little difference between the photo list and a combined list.  I belong to both and just use the delete button when I want to skip the discussion but often people forget to change the subject line so I probably miss things but sometimes time is a factor that takes precedence.   Just a thought.  I will send this to both lists.  I think John is the person to make the final decision and I know he will make a fair and well thought out one.  He always has in the past.
Patti

d*@eastland.net wrote:
Neil,

  
Your
suggestion of cross-posting (which I'm doing here ) 
    
offers an out.  But to
  
keep Iris-photos on track as "iris photos" these kinds 
    
of discussions need to
  
be shifted entirely over to Iris-talk, not just cross 
    
posted.

The problem is that some contributors to the discussion 
are not members of iris-talk.  They are members of iris-
photos.  I was surprised they could even cross post unless 
they were members.  I thought iris-photos would reject 
emails from non-member addresses.  At least Bob Pries has 
explained why he is not a member of iris-talk and unless 
he has changed his mind and subscribed, then I don't think 
he can post directly and solely to iris-talk on any 
thread.  

So the result would be the thread would not have input 
from non-members (unless non-members can indeed cross post 
as members of the other list).  The thread as it ran on 
iris-photos would likely have been substantially different 
without some of the postings that comprised the thread.  
If such a thread were soley initiated on iris-talk, those 
non-members would never be aware of it and would not be 
participants.

Donald Eaves
d*@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA


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