Re: A few questions and comments from a member

["Merrill Cohen" <amc2@ix.netcom.com>]

Hi, y'all...

Happy New Year!!!

In response to the Robert Hudson discussion (and with due respect to Eric
and his contact with Robert), I would like to give him a "shot" on my
committee.  You see, he will either be good or we'll get rid of him like
everyone else who has either been given responsibility or wanted to work
(or help).  As soon as they have some responsibility or are asked if they
would like to participate, they disappear from the hobby, AGA and APD.

Where is Hudson located?  Anyone else know him?  How deep in the hobby is
he?  

Y'all please advise me!  Thanks!

Merrill

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> From: krandall@world.std.com
> To: aga-mcm@aquatic-gardeners.org
> Subject: Re: A few questions and comments from a member
> Date: Thursday, December 31, 1998 4:36 PM
> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Neil Frank wrote:
> 
> >> I include my response to an email message from Robert Hudson, an
interested
> >> AGA member. He has some interresting ideas and will probably make a
good
> >> committee member. 
> 
> At 07:47 AM 12/31/98 -0800, Erik wrote:
> 
> >Robert has been a pain in the butt to me on more than one occasion, to
the
> >point of being abusive.  On one occasion, he attacked me for offering
> >alternative advice to someone on usenet about incandescent lighting
("why
> >the hell do you so-called experts have to make things difficult?
> >fluorescent good, incandescent bad."). More recently, he has pestered me
> >twice to summarize information on the Krib rather than present original
> >data, because it is too "difficult" for beginners to understand. 
> 
> For the moment, I'll write Robert a little "something" to keep him happy
> while we discuss this more as a group.
> 
> While we certainly can use all the willing hands we can find, Erik has
one
> of the most willing sets of hands we've come across, and he's also a
pretty
> easy guy to get along with, I think.  
> 
> For those of you who know nothing more about this than the two posts from
> Neil and Erik, let me expand upon what Erik has said, and say that it
> bothered Erik enough that he mentioned it to me a while back, although I
> don't think he mentioned the guy's name, and I'm sure neither of us was
> even aware that he was an AGA member.  
> 
> IMO, Erik has done a tremendous service for the AGA by taking over our
web
> site and mailing lists.  Beyond that, his own "Krib" web site contains
more
> useful information than you can find in any other single place.  Erik and
I
> have already discussed the lack of beginner "recipes" at the Krib site,
and
> I am intending to send him my school tank stuff for people who want to
> follow a set-by-step plan without having to know any more than that.  
> 
> While we certainly don't want to discourage people who come offering to
> help out, I am a little offput by people who come on in attack mode.  To
me
> this feels a little too much like an end run around Erik.
> 
> My first thought is to assign him to Merrill.  If he is interested in
> working on outreach, or getting local people together, he could be very
> useful in that capacity, while still keeping him out of Erik's hair.
> 
> Hope every one has a safe and happy New Year.  Our plans are cancelled
due
> to sick kids, so we'll have a quiet one... which could be a refreshing
> change too!<g>
> 
> Karen