Your thinking seems to be inline with some/all? of Nationals committee. ie
'National' become little more than a publishing house.
My personal opinion is: No Thanks :)
Cheers
Merlin
At 13:08 10/02/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Hmmmmmm
>
>Interesting suite of arguments!!!!
>
>Here's a thought:
>
>Why have members of National at all??
>
>Why not have the various ANGFAs, Native fish clubs are other interested
>parties became the actual members. Set the membership fee to (say) $1
>($5, $10, $3000 whatever) per member of the club + say another amount
>for the "club" itself.
>
>Then the member club is entitled to all benefits of ANGFA National (ie/
>members can have access to FoS etc. use the name, stick "Member of
>ANGFA" after their name etc.).
>
>The National Committee then can be drawn from the overall membership of
>each club, and maybe each club appoints a "liaison" (????). And why not
>set up a Mailing List just for committee members of the "New" ANGFA. (or
>even the old ANGFA). Then keep the "new" committee in one area (Syd,
>Bris or Melb - Nth America whatever) and one (2,3,4 whatever) "liaisons"
>with e-mail access are subscribed to the Committee Mailing List (CML).
>Sure this may be a bit slower than face-to-face discussion but at least
>all member clubs can gain relatively easy access to the committee
>discussion. And then e-mail the minutes of Committee meetings to all
>interested members rather than post - saves $$$.
>
>In addition if a member club (lets use ANGFA Qld <g>) has 250 members.
>It has paid it's ANGFA national membership fee (of say $5 per member =
>$1,250.00 + $5 for the "club") then ANGFA National can bulk ship FoS and
>the Bulletin to ANGFA and hence pass some of the cost of distribution
>onto the member clubs. Saves ANGFA National $$$ and allows the member
>club to provide a service to it's members.
>
>How ANGFA Q. wishes to pass on the $5/member onto its constituency is
>also ANGFA Q's problem. Maybe it raises entrance fee by $5. Maybe it
>decides only interested people pay $15-$20??? Heck, ANGFA Q. may as
>well make a profit on it???
>
>The benefit to this system is that it can be open to all clubs, not just
>the ANGFA's or Native fish clubs. Why others (such as sicklids <g>)
>would join has got me beat, but hey, if you don't ask them, and/or don't
>offer the "system" then the answer is ALWAYS "no".
>
>Forgive a young man's ramblings
>
>Many Tanks
>G
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