I can see it working any of several ways -- members only or only members can post -- or some forums member only and some wide open. How it might go is, I think a matter for some investigation, planning, and perhaps to be presented in a proposal. A person doesn't have to be a perty to the forums to claim that something someone said there was libelous. sh --- David Lass <davidlass@villasunscape.com> wrote: > Just out of curiosity -- are we talking about having an > open-to-all forum, > or a member-only place on the AGA website. I would think > that the latter > might give us more protection -- all the folks on the > forum would be members > of the organization, and maybe we could get them to agree > not to sue the > organization. Need legal advice. > David ===== - - - - - - - - AGA 2004 Annual Convention Designing The Nature Aquarium -- demonstrated by Takashi Amano Paludarium design -- Mike Senske Planted Aquarium Ecology -- Diana Walstad Cryptocorynes -- Jan D. Bastmeijer Field Trip, workshops and more, Nov 12, 13 & 14; Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA, USA Details & Registration at www.aquatic-gardeners.org & www.gwapa.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "incorp".