[atlarge-discuss] Honesty and integrity to:Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Eric and all fellow members,

  Agreed here Eric.  But first you must have honesty and
integrity if growing the membership is to be successful
in all respects and for the mid to long term haul.  Right now
honesty and integrity is very low in this fledgling organization
a la the Jefsey-election farce/fraud.

  Nobody in their right mind is going to pay a membership fee
unless and until absolute honesty and integrity is obvious.

Eric Dierker wrote:

> While I concur here, I add, money is money and building a large base is the
> best way to get sponsors and sponsors are the best way to build a base.
> We move inside to inside then inside to outside and remember that marketing
> is education and education is marketing.
> eric
>
> > I think you're right Paul
> >
> > The only peripheral 'sweeteners' for contributing money should be
> > things like a public acknowledgement, or a webpage profile, or
> > advertising, or things which do not effect the fundamental all-equal
> > democratic impulse for a bottom-up users' organisation
> >
> > Membership itself - and particularly the right to participate and vote
> > - should be open to all... the other way we will put off thousands, and
> > devalue the real strength of our democratic argument
> >
> > We should avoid - at all costs - "being like them"... if you play their
> > game by their rules, they always win!
> >
> > We should not be a sophisticated club, we should be a people's movement
> > - a people's movement full of information and driven by the case for
> > democratic representation in the way *our* internet is administered
> >
> > Yrs,
> >
> > Richard H
> >
>
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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