Re: [AGA-sc] cross-group spy report

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

I shouldn't chuckle, but I can't help myself.<g>

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 9:47 AM
Subject: [AGA-sc] cross-group spy report


> So the ACA has set up their own forum.Two of the new board members are big
> forum supporters and want to see the ACA have "The" forum for cichlids, so
> that people will become ACA members. They're paying some $200-300 per year
> for the software and hosting.  They used to have a forum with compuserv
> (really the "original" forum, as fishnet was a migration from the
> pre-Internet days), but nobody used the compuserv forum.
>
> So now it's been set up, and in the last week they've managed to:
>
>    * piss off some of the 4 or so compuserv people still around by not
even
>      mentioning the move,
>
>    * request that everyone on the board act as moderators, and
>
>    * have a big debate over whether to make it members only.
>
> In fact, this last point is really throwing them for a loop.  The guy who
> set it up planned to have a small section open to the public, but then
> require ACA membership for the other sections.  Problem is, their
> membership has a 50%/year turnover (worse than AGA's), and their database
> isn't even online.  So after one round of debate in which they decided to
> stick with the members-only plan, there started to be e-mails to the
> entire board like "Are any of these three people members: John Smith, Fred
> Smith, Wayne Leibel?"  Now they're starting to learn.  It is nigh
> IMPOSSIBLE to coordinate two memberships unless their databases are tied
> together.
>
> What they seemingly HAVEN'T managed to do is come up with a plan to
> interest people in participating.  They also haven't addressed the legal
> aspects, especially as it's looking like they may switch to open access.
>
> Another thing worth pointing out is that they do have a way in which they
> give access to all current members to their existing "members-only"
> website:  a single password is printed in the mailed-out trading post
> every 4 months.
>
>    - Erik
>
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