Re: [atlarge-discuss] Update on ALOC

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 04:04 p.m. 24/07/2002 -0400, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>Vittorio,  you wrote "that organizations should be able to prove their
>membership numbers and not just to claim them".  How do you intend to prove
>your own numbers?  Is someone that hasn't paid any membership fee really a
>member, or just someone with enough of an interest to sign their name onto a
>website page?
>
>The IDNO website lists around 300 members (none of whom have ever paid any
>membership fees).  How many members do they really have?  At this point,
>perhaps 5?  Certainly that's the most that have voted in their last two
>on-line votes.
>
>There is a big difference between being an actual member and simply having
>put your name at one point onto a list.

Danny,
Passive members are there to be represented, active members are there to 
represent.
The active members have no right to call the passive members non 
(actual)-members.
That attitude lies at the root of the dictatorship that has reduced the 
IDNO to such passivity.

We must not repeat that here.


--Joop


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