[TheForge] ABANA Dilema

[Dan Crowther]

>>How does ABANA represent our interests?
>
>By facilitating the communication and sharing of information between
>interested folks which ABANA has been doing since its founding.

Yes, they did that and they did it so well that the LOCAL groups can 
keep it going on their own.



>Conferences, newsletters magazines, theForge.

The Conferences no longer exist.  Newsletters were being exchanged 
before the ABANA Newsletter Exchange Agreement, and theForge is a 
simple e-list that anyone could be running. (For example my domain 
host allows me and UNLIMITED number of them)


>  Without ABANA and more precisely the individual smiths who have
>contributed their time and efforts and money to share information
>about blacksmithing it would be a dead art and none of us would be
>having this conversation.

No doubt ABANA played a GREAT role getting many local groups started, 
but what are they doing NOW?  They have not evolved with the times.


Dan Crowther
http://www.oakandacorn.com
http://www.celticclans.org