No,of course not, but on the website there a few names of people who don't mind having their names listed up there, and that list looks puny, but the people exchanging ideas via email need not belong to LCS, so of those contributors one can only guess whether they are also members of the LCS. And many of us who would want to ask friends to join, do we ask them then to subscribe to the list or join the LCS? And there is a curious thing with us Americans and things totally free. Since we measure worth so often in monetary terms, while we want things to be free, we at the same time diminish the value of a thing given away out of benevolence. ( I had a great lesson in this attitude, when in the fifties and early sixties I would give free lessons in German to people who wanted to learn. Very few persons were steady, came to the lessons regularly and carried them through, ultimately assuming, I guess, since you did not invest anything but a bit of time, you did not loose anything in taking this thing rather lightly and did not feel very obligated. The pocket book seems to be a weighty factor when establishing value. When I charged, attitudes changed.
Marta On Jul 14, 2005, at 00:03, x12 at insightbb.com wrote: > It's LCS Anonymous :) ...jf > > On Jul 13, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> I have never been a member of a group without a member list. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1756 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050714/a564007c/attachment.bin
