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Re: [nafex] Newsgroups - Fruit



Rarefruits in another newsgroup.  It is quite active.  The membership is 
over 350 whereas in NAFEX it is only 209.

C. PARMAR

At 10:02 AM 11/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>Although newsgroups are somewhat passé, while reading an old
>Pomana I found a reference to the following news group
>"alt.agriculture.fruit" and I followed the newsgroup up.
>
>Just wanted to let you know that this newsgroup almost seems
>defunct.  Intermixed with the postings for sex sites and
>free money there were a mear sprinkling of fruit related
>posts.  If you want to see what a reasonable group can
>become when left unattended vist this newsgroup.
>
>In searching the newsgroups for "fruit" related groups there
>were just a few.  Of these "alt.fruit.apples" and
>"alt.fruit.pears" are totally defunct with no postings at
>all (not even sex or free money related, not just merely
>dead, they are quite sincerely dead).
>
>Does anyone know of any active, responsible newsgroups
>dealing with fruit (other than NAFEX of course)?  Have
>people moved away from newsgroups in such mass that they
>barely function anymore?  It has been a lot of years since I
>visited a newsgroup and it did not realize that they were in
>such a state.
>
>Thank goodness for NAFEX and Egroups for being there, and
>for being such a GREAT resource to the members.
>
>Hats off to the moderator of NAFEX!!
>
>Regards,
>Tom
>--
>Thomas Olenio
>Ontario, Canada
>Hardiness Zone 6a
>
>
>

Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
Horticultural Consultant on Lesser Known Indian Plants
186/3 Jail Road
Mandi  HP  175 001
INDIA.
Phone:01905-22810  Mobile: 98160-22810  Fax;01905-25419
E-mail; parmarch@vsnl.com 


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