What are those due rates again, $45 x 10000 ??? bobb "Richard P. Kenan" wrote: > >On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Roy Lashway wrote: > > > >> >it appears the > >> >group's finances have really suffered during my outage if we can't scrape > >> >up a computer and a internet link. Must really need my $45 dues. ;-) > >> =========== > >> Perhaps you can imagine the communications load that WBCCI would get from > >> its nearly 10,000 members if it had an open email address. They have a > >> pretty limited staff now and don't know how many more staff it would take > >> to handle the load of messages and inquiries. Some day they are going > >> to have to take a look at improved communications but suspect it will be > >> awhile yet. A year ago they didn't feel they could afford to hire a > >> replacement executive director. > > > That seems to make sense on the surface, but they could just use an > address like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" That should discourage most of the 10K > (and falling) members from chatting. On the other hand, if you don't have > a setup for accepting credit cards, an email link will be of little use to > new members. > > You're absolutely right about staff. They don't even have a "webmaster's" > link on their web pages. I guess they really do operate on a shoestring. > > - Dick > (5368) > "To every man is given the key to open the gates of heaven; > The same key opens the gates of hell." - Buddhist saying > Dick Kenan Tel: 770-451-0672 > Retired and loving it! > WBCCI # 5368 23' 1972 LY Safari > Atlanta > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mindspring.com/~as5368/ > > To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to > http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html > > If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original > text from your reply. > >
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