Jim and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,
Very good analogy or comparison here Jim. This some what follows
some of what Eric and Jefsey have been suggesting is so many words.
Well done again here Jim!
Jim Fleming wrote:
> Your e-mail list debacle could have easily been solved if
> you view your organization much like a large dinner party.
> Imagine taking your 850 people and dividing them into
> tables for 8. That is 100 tables. You can list the people in
> a list, but they sit in a circle or a ring. Why people can not
> translate from a list to a circle in their heads is amazing. Also,
> one does not need a hierarchy of tables. Look at a large room
> and note the tables are like gears, people sit closer to some
> people at other tables. Asking people at an adjacent table to
> send them the list of people and names at their table should be
> easy. Rebuilding the list of 850 people should take seconds.
> Disclosing that there are 850 people on one list is foolish and
> shows what amateurs you are. People in Washington will walk
> into the DOC and say, "Oh, those kooks, it is a small group..."
> Compare that to a "real At Large" where the DOC has to face
> an unquantified collection of millions of freedom-loving people.
> They are sitting at all the other tables in the room....
>
> Dinner is served...
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