At 02:56 PM 1/16/2009, Charles Goldsmith wrote:
Gill, I'll match it, $100 a year!
>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:22:16 -0500 [email protected] wrote:
>> "You will pay $20 and use electronic version."
>
> I'd pay a TSA membership of $100 a year if they would just make an online
> copy of The CAVER....
Thanks, Charles, that's the kind of attitude we need. But let me
explain this $20 business to those few persistant readers who still
don't seem to have gotten the point.
The idea of paying $20 to get an electronic version is not the point
at all! The $20 you pay for TSA membership is for supporting TSA
activities. The $20 IS NOT a subscription to The TEXAS CAVER. That is
FREE. Let me say it again: The TEXAS CAVER is provided as a free
service to TSA Members--the hard copy or the electronic version.
Period. The $20 has not a damned thing to do with a subscription to
anything. We had, at one time, a TC subscription and TSA dues, paid
to different entities. Those two things--membership and the TC
subscription--should never have gotten confused. The sad fact is,
though, that as the production and mailing costs of The CAVER
increased, more and more of the dues went into paying for it--to the
point that it now doesn't.
The point is that there are a lot of better uses that can be made of
TSA dues money than pissing it away on an antiquated system of
information distribution just to satisfy somebody's traditional and
outdated perogatives for a slick publication. Technology has brought
us far enough forward that you can print out for very little money a
better looking hard copy in the privacy of your own home than the TSA
can afford to print and mail out to you anymore. What is the obvious
course here? Who's not paying attention?
Remember, the TSA dues of $20 represents nothing more than TSA dues;
it is not a subscription to The TEXAS CAVER and was never intended to
be. That subscription is free and should continue to be. Don't
confuse the two or you will be confused.
Thanks for your attention,
--Ediger, again
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