>(a whole bunch of stuff about my comments on the proposed Rootes Club)
>So, Rex and Ramon, ask yourselves if your Alpine Netters And Listers
>(ANAL) Group will serve these functions. Even more basically, should
>your ANAL get togethers accomplish some or all of these things? If the
>answer is "no," then the discussion need go no further.
ANAL, "Good one".
Add "subjects exchange" and what do ya get?
Ha Ha.....
I cant quite grasp where some of you trully put forth your feelings on the subject, I see mostly philosophical issues and stuff.
I will try to draw my line in the sand.
I am and have been searching for some time for an alpine/rootes club.
I've written to some of the clubs that exist, and have gotten copies of the various newsletters to give me a sense of how that club works, to gauge if its right for where I stand.
I have never settled in on a club, because I just havent found what I was looking for. Dont ask me what I am looking for, but I'd like to think that I'd know it when I found it.
Here is the problem as I see it with a web based club. You have an anxious group rearing to create the "web club", and even perhaps willing to publish a hardcopy for the web challenged.
Looks very noble, but perhaps overly optimistic. Getting someone to pay for something that another gets essentially for free, is certain to stir some commotion.
Getting people to spend 10 hours of leisure time per quarter, writing, editing and updating a web-page and newsletter sounds non trivial, particularly for free.
Keeping the elected officials motivated to continue for more than a few publishings is probably non-trivial as well.
I would not say that creating an on-line club is not a good idea, or giving/mailing copies of material could not be done, but in simple speak, anytime anyone pays for something, they surely expect to get it. When the initial optimism wanes, the people will come for your head.
I feel very strongly that a general Rootes club would be a beneficial thing, particularly in the US, where club support is so poor, but there is not a simple quick and dirty answer for how such a club could be created and administered.
I would suggest the possibility that clubs could be consolidated, and resources shared so that a greater than the whole group would prevail, and the officials would be less likely burned out by the riggors of public service.
Then, if there is energy left over at the end of the quarter/month, someone can put the info onto the internet, instead of vice versa.
My 20,000,000 lira,
Jarrid