Re: Re: HYB: finding pedigrees

In a message dated 10/8/02 10:23:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
gggrigg@bellsouth.net writes:


> My question to John is what if the AIS takes 5 years to recover printing
> costs, do we just wait?
> 

There is so much free information on the web, especially in europe, why does 
America want to sell everything?  Can't the society provide an online 
checklist system for registrations from 1939 to now?
No offense people but what did my dues go to pay for?  A National symposium a 
few go to? Large growers?
I stopped being a member because the bulletin is mainly advertising, which is 
nice to know your peers and I try to buy from several little places as well 
as the big one. But really did nothing , told me little so I stopped spending 
my money on it. Maybe in a year I will join again, to check out the ads.
So how do you find pedigrees without being a member or spending a fortune for 
each years registraions which will now cost about 150$ for the set. And who 
really uses them anyway? unless the eople want to find an iris that doesn't 
rot. Now, there was some discussion about a list circulated of easy rotters 
but not generally published on this list that i could find. So if we have 
rotters lets eliminate them. they do not deserve to be registered.  Shouldn't 
registration have other requirements :  like the rhizome can survive?  Or do 
we just want to sell a rhizome to the unsuspecting public so we can stay in 
business.

for example specifically : the America kennel club charges you, the consumer, 
to trace a parentage of a dog. Go to a european website and they are listed 
for free. America cares less about the dissemination of information than it 
does about the buck.  Time for America to do somethings for free for people. 
Also European websites are way more advanced graphically and user friendly 
than ours.  Whats up with that? I thought we were world leaders.

So i know it is a lot of work to catorgorize, and print/ publish etc but what 
is my dollar going for?

Doreen F. McCabe   
Westford, Ma  
gardenhous@aol.com



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