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Date: | Fri, 19 May 1995 09:05:00 -0700 |
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Andy,
You are entitled to your own opinions, but your response to Andrew
Matheson's e-mail seems overly harsh and uncalled for. I am not
talking on behalf of Andrew but I believe he is, as Director of IBRA, in
a better position than most of us to report about some of the things
happening in eastern Europe. Why would the reports he refers to be of
no value or be inaccurate? IBRA has had and continues to have
supportive contacts and roles with beekeeping communities in many parts
of the world where most beekeepers do not have personal access to
information or the means to communicate with beekeepers in other
countries.
As was mentioned recently on the BEE-L, the vast majority of subscribers
are associated with research facilities, government agencies and the
like (all of whom you seem to despise) who have the means to communicate
through the Internet. Of all the private subscribers, virtually all are
in North America where the access to the Internet is reasonably
affordable. Even in western Europe private subscribers pay enormous
fees to be on the internet. If you think you will contact east European
beekeepers through the Internet, you are dreaming.
By the way, the IBRA is not there to sell you anything for a profit.
The organization is there to foster beekeeping in all parts of the world
through the dissemination of information. To me, a pretty honourable
pursuit.
Paul van Westendorp [log in to unmask]
Provincial Apiarist
British Columbia
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