IAS Aroid Quasi Forum

About Aroid-L
 This is a continuously updated archive of the Aroid-L mailing list in a forum format - not an actual Forum. If you want to post, you will still need to register for the Aroid-L mailing list and send your postings by e-mail for moderation in the normal way.

  Aroid trading online
From: Steve Marak samarak at arachne.uark.edu> on 2002.07.11 at 06:17:22(9097)
Aroiders,

This topic, which came up several days ago, has died down a bit, but I
wanted to let you all know that the interest was noticed, and that people
are investigating how it might be done. Details aren't worked out yet, but
the idea didn't just disappear.

People are certainly free to post offers of extra seeds and plants to
Aroid-L (I do from time to time, and I don't even limit myself to aroids),
and Aroid-L exists to serve the wants of aroiders. However, I personally
feel for a number of practical reasons that for a true trading arena a web
approach is better (in the sense of being more efficient and convenient).
I've shared that reasoning with some other people, who agreed, and I
believe that is what is being looked at now.

One thing that will likely be needed is a couple of volunteers to help
manage it. What that would entail isn't clear yet, but I'm guessing it
would require reliable Internet access, willingness and time to check on
it and handle requests in a timely manner (once a day, maybe more? Depends
on what people think is acceptable.), and that familiarity with the web
and HTML would be most helpful. If you are such a person and so inclined,
please volunteer! (As soon as we know more, of course. Watch this space
for more details.)

Steve

+More
Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.