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

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Wonderful sentiment and great point - but drop the word absolute.
Impossible lest thee be God.
Eric

> 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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