[ATMoB-discuss] Emailing Monthly Newsletter

[Peter Bealo]

I prefer a philosophy that allows all interested parties to visit and set up
at our facility at no cost and without anyone hounding them to become a
member. If we treat them well and they see value in membership they'll
become members...if not, they'll eventually (probably pretty quickly) stop
coming and not become members.

Asking the clubhouse gang to police who can plug into a wall and who can't
strikes me as kind of soup-naziish..."No electricity for you, you no good
NHAS or NSAAC person, or even worse, a club agnostic!"...not that some of
our members don't gravitate toward that approach anyhow...

Just my opinion, and its probably wrong anyhow.

Peter


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:atmob-discuss-bounces at atmob.org] On Behalf Of George
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:30 PM
To: mhochuli at comcast.net; George Roberts; Bernie Volz (volz); Bruce Gerhard;
Bern Kosicki
Cc: atmob-discuss at atmob.org
Subject: Re: [ATMoB-discuss] Emailing Monthly Newsletter

Yes.  I was saying that non-members shouldn't get free 
electricity.  They can go to meetings for free.  They can get the 
newsletter for free.  They can go to the clubhouse and observe 
through friendly club member's scopes for free.  But they 
shouldn't get electricity to power their own scope without 
becoming a member first.

- George

On Wed Jun 14 10:29:41 PDT 2006, mhochuli at comcast.net wrote:

> For $25 annual dues, I would think that electricity at the club's 
> observing site would and should be included.  If I were to 
> observe at the site, electricity to run my scope and dew heaters 
> would be the only thing that I would use.  Marion Hochuli
>