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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