> I don't think you lose anyone important if they can't be bothered to write a check and stamp an envelope. If they aren't interested enough in fruit trees to write out a check, I'm also quite sure they would have nothing to contribute to NAFEX.
>
I suppose it depends on who you consider important. I have a lot of
interests competing for my attention. I'm not young, but I'm a beginner
at fruit growing. I'm enjoying it, but I'm not obsessed with it, to the
exclusion of everything else. If you make it easy for me to join NAFEX,
I'm sure I will. If not, I might get around to it and I might not. As I
say, I have a LOT of interests, and NAFEX isn't the only group competing
for my attention. Those that make it especially easy to join - and to
renew - have a big advantage.
Now, I'm sure I'm not "important" to the group, except that the whole
point of this discussion was to increase membership. That means bringing
in newbies like me - and younger newbies, in particular. They might
indeed have "nothing to contribute to NAFEX" right now, except their
questions. But if this is what you want, then you might as well accept a
declining membership.
Bill
--
The key to understanding the American system is to imagine that you have
the power to make nearly any law you want. But your worst enemy will be
the one to enforce it. - Rick Cook
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