Re: PAM

[Neil Frank <nfrank@mindspring.com>]

 At 09:52 AM 10/26/1999 -0400, Villa Sunscape wrote:
>Just my opinion, but I really think we should try and keep the ownership
>ofPAM as simple as possible. This means that other than Gomberg and, I >
>guess,Herlong, folks who write for the magazine, submit pictures, etc.
>should bepaid in cash money. 

I agree with David, that simple is best. During all my conversations with
Gomberg, it is still not clear why we want to invest and have control. To
maintain control, we may have to continue to put in more money. The end
benefit? perhaps to make money? is that important to us? Do we have a
long-term need for a fatter treasury to do what we want?
On the other hand, in this venture, our stock control would give us some
control over content. So far the expected content and type of ads seem OK
for me. Might this change? maybe. Can we deside to divorce Gomberg then?
sure. Will our membership follow us or jump ship for gomberg? That all
depends on what AGA has to offer. As I said before, this is an OPPORTUNITY
for AGA to sharpen its focus and give its members a reason to be.

In conclusion, unless Dave's interest in AGA suggests otherwise, I think it
might be best for AGA to not have any investment.... to have some agreement
with Dave that our membership is ours and that he cannot make any direct
mailings other than the distribution of PAM and that we offer to provide
him input for the 4 or an occasional 8 pages to GIVE HIM an incentive for
our members to accept PAM as one of the AGA vehicles for disseminating its
news. I still think AGA should consider alternate communication vehicles.
We have the AGA web site... and we might want to consider a quarterly or
semiannual newsletter (to come out between issues of PAM). Such a newletter
(2-4 pages) can be used for special announcements (little lead time is
needed) or other member oriented material. many clubs have multiple
publications.

Note that I deleted all the old text. this keeps the size of the incoming
message as small as possible. Also, if you cc aga0mcm, then you don't have
to cc the individual members, unless you want them to get 2 copies.
--Neil