[Killietalk] Subject: Re: Loss of Killitalk

["Allan Semeit" <azkillie at cox_net>]

There is a lot to like about KillieTalk, particularly it's ease of access 
and use.  At the same time, I have often considered unsubscribing because so 
little of the content concerns keeping killies.  There has been just enough 
of the latter to keep me on the list.   For this I wish to thank Scott 
Davis, Wright Huntley, and a few others who I am forgetting and wish to 
apologize.

The big question to ask is whether the AKA should continue sponsor 
KillieTalk?  If KillieTalk is considered to be detrimental to the AKA, due 
to the nature of the postings, and turns off potential more new members (as 
well as current AKA members) than it attracts, I believe the AKA should 
discontinue KillieTalk.  It appears the BOT has already decided upon that 
course of action.

The next question, then, is what options are there besides using the forums 
on the AKA website?  One obvious choice would be to set up another email 
list.  Some of the old-timers will remember that back in the 1970s, there 
were two killie email lists to which you could subscribe - KillieTalk and 
another list whose name I forget.  Both were similar in content, at least 
for a while.  The second list died an inglorious death largely because of it 
lost it's focus and became a gripe site which turned off subscribers 
including me.  That said, we certainly have some people on KillieTalk 
capable of creating a new email list, if they wanted.  Any volunteers?

Besides setting up a new email list, there is another existing option.  You 
could join killifish at yahoogroups_com.  This group sends postings to your 
email like KillieTalk. This group is currently NOT a very active and I do 
not know Will Griffin who manages it.  Still, if you're looking for an 
alternative to KillieTalk, this could be it, especially if enough people 
switched over.

Since we do not know when the plug is going to be pulled on KillieTalk, I 
might be beneficial to discuss and consider the above options.  Flame 
shields up!

Allan from Arizona




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