Re: What do we do now?

["Karen Randall" <krandall@world.std.com>]

> Did SC give permissione for these magazines to print articles about the
> showcase? Is there any reason why we should be 'giving' Dave anything? It
is
> our baby, we orgaized it, we have done everything for it and I certainly
> think we should be the first to publish the results when we are ready. It
> was Dave's idea to start PAM. I don't think we have to carry him and cater
> to him everytime he yells. I think we should just turn off our hearing aid
> until we are ready to turn it on.

Dave is not yelling for _anything_.  The only person yelling is Mary.  Dave
ahs OFFERED us a 2 page spread in the next PAM to _publicize_ our contest.
He does not _need_ the material.  He is trying his darndest to support the
work of AGA, and we are again slapping him in the face.

Dorothy, when you say it is "our baby", don't you agree that one of the main
purposes of AGA is to spread the word about planted tnaks?  If so, doesn't
it make sense to use every avenue possible to spread the word?

Dave, nor Erik nor I have said we want PAM to "scoop" TAG.  That's exactly
why this whole mess came up.  Dave is trying very hard to fit something into
PAM for us on a timely basis.  But there is much more material available
than Mary can possibly use.  It makes sense to use these resources wisely
for the further promotion of both AGA and the planted tank hobby in general.

The problem is that Mary is being very dog-in-the-mangerish about this.  She
wants to give Dave only the dregs, and only after she has taken her own
sweet time deciding what she might use at some point.  Dave has said, quite
reasonably, (he was _not_ blustering or threatening) that if the contest
becomes "old news" it's not fair to his readers for him to waste editorial
space on it.

Dave will play it either way.  He'll have no problem filling those two pages
with information interesting to his readers.  It's only the AGA that stands
to lose if Mary continues this road block.

Karen

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