I have a great idea for BOTH LUGs. Let's form a plan to invade Redmond.
Dave
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 18:37, Levi Bard wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 January 2003 22:31, you wrote:
> > > If I may ask, what's the point of forming a new LUG in this area? Doesn't
> > > it make more sense to consolidate all of ourselves into a single monolithic
> > > group, rather than having multiple splinter factions? If the membership
> > > gets spread too thin, both LUGs may end up failing.
> > >
> > > Levi
> >
> > Neither Dave or I are advocating anyone leave Slug. We are both still on the
> > email list. We have founded a lug with different basic policy to broaden
> > participation by those who want more freedom.
> > Your "spread too thin" theory has little merit in my experience. This
> > argument was raised by the NRA when Gunowners of America started.
> > The net effect was ultimately better pro-second amendment lobbying and many
> > folks had dual memberships and became more active. Lugs will only fail when
> > beneficial communication and initiative gets stifled.
> > Smitty
>
> OK, I hope you're right. I mentioned it because I've seen instances of other common-instance groups failing because there got to be more groups than the membership could support. I hope LUGs across the world get to be as populous as the NRA is in the US!
>
> Levi
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