Re: Collecting wild fish (AKA sponsorship, Part 3)

[Wright Huntley <jwwiii at pacbell_net>]

RuevenM at aol_com wrote:

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>     This is yet another reason why I feel an on line real time F&EL is so 
> vitally important to the future of the AKA. I totally disagree with Wright in 
> that I feel part of the AKA's very reason for existance is to aid members in 
> distributing fish. It is now failing in that vital part of its legacy and reality 
> because it has decided to only look backwards at the needs of a few while 
> forgetting the needs of today, the possibilities of today -- not to mention the 
> needs of all foreign based members. I believe a real time on line F&EL could 
> serve as a substitute for the old idea of a N&RSC because more people could list 
> more fish and more rare fish could be sold to the membership. The on line 
> feature would allow people to organize themselves and their fishroom activities 
> when it came to selling and sending far better than what we have today. I 
> believe it would open up the fishrooms of the AKA and move fish around.
>     Auctions and affiliate clubs only serve a portion of the membership but 
> since it is a particularly active and connected part of the membership it's 
> fish needs are met and so changing the F&EL to a real time on line format is not 
> a crucial issue to this portion of the membership.

I do not think we disagree, Bobby. I just said we should have some 
compelling reasons to get involved in fish trade that furthers the AKA 
goals. If adequate fish trade is provided for outside AKA, fine. If 
boosting the trade will encourage the breeders, even better.

You just gave a couple of very good reasons for pushing an on-line trading 
mechanism. Personally, I don't think it should resemble the F&E format, as 
that has built into it some archaic features that are part of what folks 
don't like about it. It is inherently unfair, for example. Why propagate 
that feature with a classified ad on line that does the same thing?

A bad painting looks just as bad (or worse) on a web page. Attempts to use 
the web like a brick and mortar storefront have always failed miserably, 
so why should we try to duplicate that known way to fail? Let's leave the 
F&E alone, and use the newer technology to do what it does best.

Off to look at what the CP folks are up to. :-)

Wright

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