iris DIGEST          Friday, January 8 2016          Volume 01 : Number 435



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        Re: OT-CHAT: [iris] Active?

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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:34:28 -0500
From: Shaub Dunkley <4*@rewrite.hort.net>
Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: [iris] Active?

sigh. I am one of those people who refuses to use Facebook. I read the
'terms and conditions' of that dubiously intentioned place and cannot
understand why people would want their organization's core discourse to
get sucked into that for-profit black hole. The central idea is to have
people create content at no cost to Facebook. Content to promote profit
making. Drifting to the lowest common denominator - fast-food
'McDonald's' discourse.

A better alternative for irisarians to have some other logical
non-commercial option. Like maybe the AIS to create a forum? I have no
earthly idea why there isn't one there. It makes no sense at all that
the flagship irisarian organization cannot get it up to have one. It
could give the larger irisarian community a central place to meet and
better hope for a central narrative beyond fast-food.

:) Of course I don't have a strong opinion about this.
Shaub Dunkley
Z 6a western NC

On 1/6/2016 5:23 PM, Linda Mann wrote:
> Yep, we're still here.  Not sure I'd exactly call us "active" any
> more.  Most folks who used to talk on hort.net have moved to Facebook.
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> But the archived discussions still were getting a lot of traffic, last
> time I checked with our 'landlord', Chris.
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> Colleen, is that Colleen Modra?  What in the world are you doing here
> in the winter?  Wrong time of year to be hybridizing.
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> Linda Mann
> east TN USA
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