ADMIN: Email robins and Iris-L...case CLOSED!
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- Subject: ADMIN: Email robins and Iris-L...case CLOSED!
- From: T* T* L* <t*@rt66.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:48:28 -0700 (MST)
Folks, let's stop this.
The AIS robin program existed decades before Iris-L was even imagined, and
it is NOT the business of this discussion group to set the terms for AIS
extending its robin program into email robins. That's up to the AIS Robin
Chairman and to the directors and participants of those robins.
Believe me, Iris-L is in no danger from competition with AIS robins
(although the reverse is certainly possible). I assure you there will
continue to be copious postings on historic irises, Siberian irises,
hybridizing, and any other conceivable topic, regardless of how the AIS
manages its robin program.
It's really not our problem. Trust me.
Do we need to have a debate on Iris-L every time some irisarians want to
use a modem instead of the mail to write to each other? Do we need to
sanction or control every iris-related web page that goes up somewhere? Of
course not.
We don't own cyberspace.
Even in the absurdly unlikely event that AIS email robins drive Iris-L to
extinction, so what? It's just people choosing how they want to spend their
time. Let's let it be.
This is a ridiculous and pointless controversy to drop into Ellen
Gallagher's lap. The HIPS email robin had to endure no such scrutiny, and I
hope no future email robin has to either.
Anyone is entitled to post any iris-related material to this list, provided
they obtain permission from the writer. That's the beginning and end of it.
No more, please.
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Tom Tadfor Little telp@Rt66.com
Iris-L list owner * USDA zone 5/6 * AIS region 23
Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
Telperion Productions http://www.rt66.com/~telp/
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