Re: AIS web site
Lois Rose wrote:
>
> I get the list in digest form, which means I'm always reading day-old
> messages, so someone may already have cleared up this misunderstanding.
>
> On 30 Oct 1996 Clarence wrote:
> > The American Gardener, published by the American Horticultural Society,
> > Nov/Dec 96 issue, has an article "Caught on the Web" which explains various
> > horticultural information sources on the Internet. At the end of the article
> > is a summary of "Other Web Sites of Interest to Gardeners." Here you will
> > find....dah, dah.....American Iris Society
> > (http://wwwisomedia.com/homes/AIS/)
>
> Carolyn Schaffner responded:
>
> > Clarence's announcement about the IRIS-LIST suggests that the LIST is
> > somehow sanctioned by AIS, which I understand it is not.. <snip> Has
> > anyone on this LIST sent a press release about this LIST to various
> > publications??
>
Lois Rose wrote:
> Unless I missed something somewhere, it wasn't the IRIS-L that got the
> publicity; it was the AIS home page which, or course, is AIS sanctioned.
>
Chris adds:
Yes Lois, you are correct. Clarence's post made no reference or
inference to the Iris list. He was talking about the AIS Home Page.
Just to clarify:
AIS Home Page is AIS funded.
Iris List is a private entity.
Tom Tadfor Little's Iris Page and others like it are private entities.
--
Christopher Hollinshead
Mississauga, Ontario Canada zone6b
AIS Region 16
Director, Canadian Iris Society
Newsletter Editor, Canadian Iris Society
e-mail: cris@netcom.ca
