Re: F&EL

[Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

Bill,

The issue at this moment is to make the BOT aware of members' wishes. If 
the BOT decides some form of online listing is desirable, we will find a 
way to do it.

Barry

At 05:23 PM 3/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Barry;
>I do not think I am alone in that I do not use the F&EL much for buying or
>for selling.  My reason is that unless you have a lot of a species, you are
>bound to receive boxes with checks when all your available pairs are already
>sold, and I feel guilty for trying to keep 3 pair for my future generations.
>Even if people call first, you may already be out and now you have usually
>either disappointed or angered someone.  The problem is that you do not have
>access to the post to delete it once fish are sold, and must submit thepost
>earlier than the fish become available or risk depletion of stock by non BNL
>sales by the time the BNL is issued. . Member access to a for sale page
>would solve this problem. My understanding is that this is not credible
>since the AKA rep feels it is necessary to screen the listing for accuracy.
>If a listed name/location is perfect, it still does not mean that the fish
>is what is posted.  This is something I feel buyers must police for
>themselves.
>
>Perhaps AKA member access to a AKA folder for posting on a page they uplink
>is the answer. With all the free online FTP programs, tat should be easy for
>a member to do. I just do not know if it is possible to allow access to a
>set folder without general site access for uplink.
>Bill Shenefelt
>
>
>
>
>Perhaps we can provide a mechanism that will allow most people good
> > access, yet satisfy the desire to keep the AKA COE involved as well as
> > satisfying the need of sellers to have a way to list small or large
>numbers
> > of fish in a timely way, and to unlist them when they are gone.
> >
> > The bottom line is that the reasons don't matter. The fact is that the BNL
> > F&EL is slowly dying as a mechanism for distributing killies. We need to
> > come up with an alternative. t
> >
> > Barry
>
>
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Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)


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