Miata Mailing List: July 1996, Message #105
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   From: jaimev@netcom.com (Jaime C. Villacorte)
Subject: Re: Miata.net in the MCA Mag
   Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 04:53:43 -0400

On Jul 2,  2:08am, Norman H. Garrett III wrote:
} Subject: Re: Miata.net in the MCA Mag
} Gary,
} 
} You continually print comments like these and then wonder why we don't join
} with you in partnership. 
} 
} Think about it, friend.
} 
} Norman G


Gee...I must have been asleep at the keyboard and must have missed what
Norman G is referring to as "comments like these". I had to go back and
look at last month's archive of Miata list messages to see what it was
that Gary Fischman had said to be such a pain in the ass for Norman.

Let's see,

Gary had said...

[ So let me just say for the record (and I'm sure most of you already
[ know this.)
[ 
[ Miata Club of America has not made any effort to sponsor, support,
[ fund, assist, or in any other way get involved with Miata.net.

Well, no surprises here. I don't see any links or pages for the MCA or
any signs of MCA sponsorship in the miata.net web pages. But I do see
Bill Cardell's The Dealer Alternative, Brainstorm and other vendors
and sponsors proudly showing their links/pages at the Miata.net site.

Gary continues...

[ This just proves that serving the Miata Club membership is not the
[ primary focus of MCA. If it were, they would encourage people to check
[ out the Miata.net listserv and Web site.

I agree with Gary's comments. I find it particularly strange that a
magazine which claims to be serving the good of the Miata community,
has yet to mention such a wonderful resource as www.miata.net.

Finally, Gary says...

[ Bottom line - if it doesn't generate revenue for MCA, they won't pay
[ much attention to it. Just more evidence that MCA is just another name
[ for a quarterly publication. The "C" is really a misnomer.

I have to say that this comment was a bit harsh, but to a fun-loving,
Miata-owning, MCA member/subscriber like me, I have to admit that all
I see from my yearly dues to the MCA is a quarterly magazine that has
many rehashed topics that had previously been discussed in this
list. I'm with Gary...I find find the word "Club" in "Miata Club of
America" a bit deceiving. To me, this list is more of a club than the
MCA claims to be.

But I hope Norman G proves Gary wrong when he said "...if it doesn't
generate revenue for MCA, they won't pay much attention to it."
Maybe one of these days, the MCA *will* decide to officially recognize
the miata.net URL or the Miata list in their magazine, despite all the
MCA bashing that occurs here.

When that issue comes out, perhaps they'll gain back some of the respect
I've lost today for the MCA founder, Norman "Think about it, friend." Garrett.


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