Miata Mailing List: July 1996, Message #191
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   From: Al Staats 
Subject: Re: MCA and Miata.net
   Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 19:57:07 -0400

At 04:44 PM 7/2/96 -0400, Frank Potter wrote:
>Norman's maladroit message to Gary simply underscores what many of us have
>suspected for years: the purpose of the"Club" is not to serve or support
>"members" - more accurately called "subscribers - it's to sell magazines.
>Members of the "Club" don't get to vote on officers, procedures,
>God-help-us-salaries, or anything else - we get to buy the magazine. That's
>it. If we don't like it, we get to vote with our feet, or checkbooks.
>
>Ken and Bob have hit the thumb right on the nail: The Miata.net doesn't do
>a thing to improve Norman Garrett's income flow, and is therefore ignored.
>I don't like it, but I certainly understand it. Competent writers and
>proofreaders don't even rate very high on MCA's priority list.
>
>The reason that most of us subscribe is to see what new stuff has shown up
>in the ads. Gary's heroic efforts to support the Miata community has
>absolutely no counterpart in MCA--that's not what they do.
>
>I entirely support Gary in his efforts to develop an even more
>member-supportive Miata.net, about which we will all presumably learn more
>in Toronto. I wouldn't be surprised to see MCA's membership rolls begin to
>wither even more rapidly than they have in the past year, as people begin
>to discover what real member support can be.
>
>Color me disgruntled.
>
>Color me off to Toronto, I wonder how big the message file will be when I
>get back in a week....
>
>Live long and prosper, guys, and stay away from the front of large semis.
>
>Frank
>
>"Every once in a while you really want to do something that is really out
>of the norm--something really stupid--and, by damn, we have found it." -
>
>>From a recent Washington Post article about people who buld and operate
>catapults - okay, trebuchets - capable of throwing things like pianos, cars
>(Del Sols?), etc.
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