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LMG
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On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 11:07:20 jimgcusavecom wrote:
What happens to the MORGAN LIST if the bulk the 265
subscribers join the proposed CMC. Where would those
who DID NOT join get their tech info if everyone was
sending this info to CMC? Is CMC going to open it's web
site to everyone, member or not? Does every member of
every club that joins have to be a member of CMC?
Personally, think the Morgan List is like an
"international" internet club now.
Jim
Hi Jim,
You are absolutely right.
I am not one who believes that we have to destroy and
replace the good things we have now in order to create
something new and worthwhile. Come to think of it,
that would be a very non-Morgan attitude.
I was thinking that the good things (such as this List)
would be seamlessly amalgamated into the "Super"
club's web site and expanded with a live Chat Room if
we felt like it.
The site would become a "joint" site with multiple
contributers to multiple departments. The work is
already being done..it is just not centrally organized.
Local clubs (the future "chapters") would be encouraged
and supported with free administration, their own page
at the site and their events better published.
Revenues would go up from advertisers as the market
they would be offered for their products would be much
larger. Insurance, product quality, Morgan owner
(consumer) protection, all this and more could become
interesting possibilities but for the moment the
K.I.S.S rules should apply.
We could just get a few clubs together on a new web
site, give this site a name, throw in some of the
existing resources and see if we like it. That much
could be done with good will and no money.
Let's not re-invent the wheel here. This idea has
worked successfully for many other marques. It will
work for all of us as well. We seem to be a smaller
more cohesive group than the others as it is.
Like Fred insists, some clubs will jealously hold onto
their isolation because of the personality of their
BIGWIGS. Some members will speak often and
enthusiastically and perhaps deliver less than that in
the end.
Some members will only want a hard-copy magazine, some
will only want the internet access, some will only
look for the tech info and lectures, some will stick
around the Chat Room with a beer beside them and a
funny story, some will join only because it lowers
their insurance rates and some will join because they
can publicly chastise their last supplier of an
expensive defective part.
But does it matter why each specific member or club
joins? The only question is whether it seems like a
good idea to each of us individually. We might get
side-tracked trying to imagine why the other guy won't
join even though we, in fact, will.
LMG
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