Re: [Killietalk] CD project

["Edd Kray" <edd at catfishnthecrawlers_com>]

So WHAT IS A FAIR PRICE?

Those who paid for their JAKAs over the past 40 years have paid
approximately 40x$25/yr in dues to get them. That's $1000, Is that the
fair price?

And then if the budget for this is in the realm being quoted, perhaps
that would be the cost to the 25 people who Really do buy it.

(Everyone "wants" KMI until its time to shell out the dollars. Ask
Dick.)

Edd  "the realist" in Colorado

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna M. Recktenwalt [mailto:dmrecktenwalt at sbcglobal_net] 
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 11:20 AM
To: edd at catfishnthecrawlers_com; killifish discussion list
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] CD project

    I'm surprised that some individuals feel there aren't enough members

interested in having a JAKA CD to warrant work on the project.
    Since this topic was first brought up and discussed some years ago, 
there has been a good deal of grass-roots interest expressed. About half
of 
our local club members (Greater Cincinnati Killifish Association) have
said 
that if the price wasn't restrictive they'd like to buy a copy for their

personal records and research. I've heard similar comments from members
of 
other affiliate clubs. The fish information in those old JAKAs is
priceless.
    As I understand it, the primary obstacles are 1) the volume of
material, 
2) a person willing to coordinate (and delegate) the required tasks, and
3) 
the amount of time required. At the beginning, when Barry was overseeing
the 
project (and before he commented that the task was too big for him to
handle 
alone), a number of individuals had come forward to offer their help ...
and 
there action on the effort ended.
    I'm one of those who would gladly buy a CD copy of back issues (for
a 
fair price), and I know a number of GCKA and AKA members still feel ths
same 
way.
    So why do we {the AKA) keep dragging our feet on this project?
Donna

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edd Kray" <edd at catfishnthecrawlers_com>
To: <ken_combs at sbcglobal.com>; "'killifish discussion list'" 
<killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] CD/priorities/donations


>
>
> Just one old farts opinion:
>
> I find the fanaticism over the JAKA on CD issue amazing. My view is
that
> there are maybe 2 dozen members who want this thing and are willing to
> offend the rest of us in their ardor, donate BIG BUCKs (talking a
> quarter million bucks in some peoples estimates) to get it done, spend
> years of work on the task and insist that it be perfect, uncopy-able.
>
> ME, I don't give a rats patootie for the project.
>
> If I want an old JAKA I'll take the trouble to find the old one myself
> and have it in a form that I can read it anywhere I want (a book)
rather
> than be forced in front of a computer screen. Computers are wonderful
> tools but they don't replace BOOKS.
>
> If I had a couple hundred "fishy-bucks" to throw around (as one member
> seems to), I'd donate it to the George Maier Fund where it would fund
> research and conservation for the next hundreds of years.
>
> Priorities......on a list of 200 AKA priorities, I would put JAKA on
CD
> in the top 150.
>
> Edd in conservative Colorado
>
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