Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- NANFA is more than this list!
Chris:
Thanks, but are your words accurate...or a reflection of what some
"..there are people quitting or refusing to join NANFA because of all the
I've read that general thought as expressed by others...but the only
I'm not saying people are not quitting or refusing to join NANFA because
Just a thought...
Bob Sinclair
All you guys who are judging NANFA, hating NANFA, or quitting NANFA solely
NANFA is more than a free email list server and the virtual sense of
Furthermore, it absolutely drives me batty knowing that there are people
And speaking of censorship, what's so gosh-darn wrong about limiting this
Chris Scharpf
(currently up the street from Puget Sound)
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: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 12:24:26 CDT
From: Bob Sinclair (rjs-in-silcom.com)
Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 19:09:07 CDT
might believe?
off-topic chatter on this list ... and that there are people quitting or
refusing
to join NANFA."
confirmed reports I have of people quitting had to do with several
formerly loyal members dropping out because they were offended
by the way they were treated for posting an "off topic" message or
two to the list.
of off-topic chatter on the list. I just don't know. But it seems to me,
if
this is so, they're interest in native freshwater fishes must not be be very
serious.
Santa Barbara CA
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Subject: NANFA-L-- NANFA is more than this list!
on whether the BOD tolerates or attempts to control off-topic discussions on
this email list, are looking through the wrong end of the telescope!
community it provides. NANFA is a quality publication. It's education and
conservation grants. It's annual conventions. It's cool t-shirts. It's local
collecting trips and grassroots conservation efforts. Many of the people who
are turning their back on NANFA today because of this email list were here
10 years ago when NANFA had nothing -- no publication (or a very shoddy and
inconsistent one), no money, no conventions, no t-shirts, no public
outreach, no grants, no credibility and respect among the academic,
government, and conservation sectors -- and certainly no email list. Yet
despite these tremendous strides, you choose to judge NANFA solely on
whether people on the email list share your political views, or are nice to
you, or that they even dare ask you to refrain from irrelevant or off-topic
posts. That just doesn't make any sense to me.
quitting or refusing to join NANFA because of all the off-topic chatter on
this list ... and that there are people quitting or refusing to join NANFA
because any attaempt to control this chatter is deemed censorship. Does
anyone besides me see how stupid this is?
list to discussions about fish? If Bob Sinclair submitted reviews of his
favorite gangsta rap albums to AC, would you want to read them? Would I be
guilty of censorship for refusing to print them?
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