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Mary Sue Ittner via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:21:08 PST
It seems like we have this discussion every few years as some people are 
more happy with forums like the wonderful one from the Scottish Rock 
Garden. Some people like Facebook and some people prefer our format. It 
seems to me that having choices is a good thing. This list has been 
going since 2002 and has attracted people who prefer to communicate 
through email. There are a lot of possibilities already on Facebook it 
seems for those people who want to communicate that way. One advantage 
that we have thanks to David Pilling is a searchable archive so you can 
find information from the past. Some of us even spent hours transferring 
earlier posts from the days before ibiblio so those would be available 
as well.

https://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php/#Archive

I do not have a Facebook account, but sometimes I've been sent links to 
Facebook pages that allow visitors and I often can't find the post that 
they referred me to, especially if it is a day or so later. I find that 
very frustrating.

Images are possible on our list but you do have to be able to add an 
attachment to an email. I like that I can choose to click on the link to 
the attachment or not and see it very quickly without it arriving with 
my email.

There are probably some advantages to having large groups of people as 
you have more sources of information. But there are also advantages to 
having smaller groups as it is possible to become more of a community.

Mary Sue

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