Re:Cotyledon (Adromischus?)
Deborah, I thought your suggestion in today's mail as to criteria to use so
as to exclude certain classes of people from our group, beginning with
economic standing, potentially very sound. What had you mind as an
economic cut off point? May we hear more?I would go for around $20000 before
tax. Keep out some of the riff-raff would'nt it? Also I suggest people who
cannot spell 'lavander' should be excluded, plus those who profess to having
a medit. style garden but do not grow any quercus ilex. Salvia growers are a
bit borderline too.
No doubt we can elicit other ways to improve the tone of our group from the
membership. One way and another we have got to stop the rot and thank-you
for bringing up this important point.
Edward FARIDANY
Sussex
----- Original Message -----
From: Deborah Lindsay <Deborah.Lindsay@kaiseral.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: 18 May 2000 16:04
Subject: Re:Cotyledon (Adromischus?)
> Charles wrote:
>
> "I would like to say two things.
>
> First, there is quite a bit of difference in the work and
> time involved in attaching a picture and putting one on a web page.
> People that are more knowledgeable than I can make the difference
> smaller, I'm sure, but attachments will always be easier. Certain
> maximum standards could be used. Mine are 4" x 6" at 72 dpi. Perhaps
> someone could suggest other standards that would still convey the
> needed information at less memory cost."
>
> Someone suggested that a member who has pictures in jpg form to share or
ask
> questions about could tell us that via the list and *offer* to send them
to
> those interested, via private e-mail. I think this is a great idea and a
> wonderful compromise.
>
> "Second, not everyone has a web page. So this group is being
> excluded from showing their pictures or asking their pictorial
> questions. I think it is a shame that they are being excluded because
> someone's computer hasn't been upgraded or because they have a poor
> ISP."
>
> No one would be excluded from showing your pictures if we used the above
> process. Those whose systems are harmed by big files (as graphics files
always
> are) are excluded from any participation in the list until they fix the
problem.
> Charles, not everyone can afford to upgrade their computers,
> and not everyone has a choice of what isp they can use or afford. Shall we
> exclude people based on their economic standing?
>
> Deborah Lindsay
>
>
