It would be something to do with the idle time...
Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
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> From: Andrew Boyd <andrew at pcug.org.au>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Project
> Date: Friday, February 21, 1997 4:57 PM
>
> At 05:50 PM 2/20/97 -0700, Roy wrote:
> >With All this crap from Gordon we kinda got out of the swing..
>
> I for one have had about enough of it... I've had a really bad week and
if I
> projected that on the list then there wouldn't be many of you left, but
I'm
> not like that }8-)>
>
> >What do you
> >say we work on a project or something :-) I dunno maybe we could try to
> >come up with a list of every known Rainbowfish held in captivity and
maybe
> >give them a category from rare to common.
>
> I think that this is more the sort of thing that Alan and I had in mind
when
> we started the list, Roy.... I'd propose that this be done on a regional
> basis, as owing to regulatory and other factors what is rare here may be
> rare in the USA, and vice versa, not to mention the differing situation
in
> other parts of the world that should not be discounted, especially
Europe.
>
> I feel that any program hinges on knowing what to work with (I know that
> there are wildly differing opinions as to the characteristics, desirable
and
> otherwise, of a group of fish gathered for a breeding program, Mr Unmack
may
> wish to re-illustrate this point for the newer subscribers of the list) -
> and one factor in this is IMHO the relative scarcity of the fish in
> captivity. Regardless of the weight that one places on this factor, I
think
> that it is a real one.
>
> All it takes is a bit of cooperation and a lot of hard work.... I'm in
> favour of it myself.
>
> Regards, Andrew Boyd
>
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