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Re: All this membership bitchin' !!!

In a message dated 2/12/2002 4:31:10 AM Central Standard Time, 
Owner-KillieTalk at AKA_Org writes:


> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:30:12 EST
> From: RuevenM at aol_com
> Subject: membership
> 
> Hi Allen,
> 
>         I find it interesting that any criticism of the AKA always brings 
> forth a number of responses saying that everything and everyone is always 
> wonderful and anyone saying otherwise is just horrible. I never said Gary 
> did 
> a bad job and I do not believe that questioning and finding fault with a 
> policy is the same as finding fault with an individual. Gary may carry out 
> a 
> flawed policy with the brilliance of Einstein and the committment of a 
> Marine 
> - -- and that makes him wonderful at his job -- but the POLICY -- THE 
> POLICY -- 
> THE POLICY -- might still be bad. Not sending out cheap postcards as 
> renewal 
> reminders to me is bad policy, when every other association for fish and 
> orchids of which I am a member still sends out postcard reminders. I just 
> imagined the AKA still did. Obviously, it is my responsibility to remember 
> my 
> renewal date -- Duh! And having been a member off and on starting in 1969, 
> I 
> guess I usually remember pretty well all by my lonesome. But the POLICY of 
> how one is reminded can still be looked at and changed to work for the 
> better 
> - -- and that was my point until people ignored my point and --- as people 
> seem 
> to always do -- made it a PERSONAL rather than a POLICY criticism. Maybe 
> you 
> failed to notice, but I offered to help Gary with mailing postcards. 
>       My comment on the F&E Listings came from Gary's remark about me 
> reading 
> more than the F&E Listings in the BNL next time I got an issue. I do not 
> list 
> in the BNL as the 3 species I raise are tough enough to just maintain -- 
> zonatus, hoignei and F. arnoldi. When and if I have extra pairs there will 
> be 
> an ad. Of course, in years past, long before your time, I have had a 
> listings 
> in the F&E list. I have also sent plants, fish and tons of literature to 
> people from contacts made on this list -- packages to England, South 
> Africa, 
> etc -- out of my own pocket and postage ain't cheap! I think I am 
> responsible 
> for maybe 10 people joining the AKA over the years. I have written articles 
> for JAKA and provided the editor with material. I ran for the BOT in 1974. 
> I 
> helped to start one of the 3 local killie clubs we have had here over the 
> last 32 years. I have convinced local stores to carry killies. And I 
> volunteer mostly for my local aquarium society as I work full time, am 
> finishing a degree this year after 4 years back in college due to a career 
> change and I care for one invalid parent. It was two invalid parents, but 
> my 
> Dad died 3 weeks ago. I do this alone. So I do not need non-constructive 
> remarks on the right to criticize or not to criticize, or on life's 
> responsibilities. I am a person -- not a POLICY!
> 
> Robert E.
> 
Why would any "reasonable, thinking" person come to the conclusion that one 
postcard, intermixed with the huge volume of todays' junk mail, work to get 
you to do your duty (send in your dues), when each issue of the newsletter 
does exactly the same thing?  I, for one, would not like to see the limited 
funds go for such a notice.
Frank Carriglitto
AKA #08234  (but originally AKA #158 - that's kinda low.  So what!)


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