Fw: [Chrysler300] E News and the proposals to go on line only?

["Ron Waters" <ronbo97@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Earlier today, Tim Tomlin posted a response to my opinion that the club 
consider going to an electronic format for the newsletter.

Initially, I just sent a response to Tim. But I reconsidered and felt that 
it should be posted to the list.

Ron


> Hi Tim -
>
> Thanks for your feedback. It's important to hear everyone's opinion, 
> especially folks that don't usually post on the list.
>
> My post was an attempt to express my opinion and 'test the waters' to see 
> how folks felt about the idea. There is no 'push' to change things over.
>
> Regarding the gun club that you belong to, it seems that the membership 
> was not sufficiently polled before the decision was made to go strictly 
> on-line.Adding a question like this to the annual membership dues mailing 
> would have assured a good number of respondents.
>
> If you did get a significant number of folks saying, 'yeah, online is fine 
> for me', then subsequently half the club became inactive, then is that the 
> club's fault ? I suggest that it's the members' laziness instead. It's no 
> different than if they don't pick up their mail from the mailbox, then 
> claim they didn't know about shoot schedules, meetings, etc. If it's 'too 
> onerous' for them to click a link on their desktop on in the browser, then 
> maybe they are not sufficiently interested in the club anymore.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tomlin" <tomlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Chrysler 300 club" <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:30 PM
> Subject: [Chrysler300] E News and the proposals to go on line only?
>
>
>> Gloria and others,
>>  First, I think the new e-news is great.  I wish to add now, before 
>> things get out of hand, that I was dismayed to have the push made already 
>> to convert to a strictly electronic communiication for the club.  I whole 
>> heartedly agree with Gloria's comments in this regard and wish to add a 
>> few before this thing gets too much of a life.
>>  I belong to a small gun club of a little over 300 members.  Several 
>> years ago we went to strictly "on line" communications, with the 
>> exception of the very few (fewer than a dozen) that took time to request 
>> continued mailings.  We have now lost consistent contact with close to 
>> half our membership despite the assurances that "most people are on line" 
>> in the modern age of electronics.  It is amazing the numbers of members 
>> that don't know what is happening in their club for their benefit.  The 
>> requirement to consciously go on line to find schedules for shoots or 
>> other events seems to be too onerous for many.
>>  It would also seem to be not feasible to go backwards and return to 
>> mailings.  The ones attending the meetings, now, and voicing opinions, 
>> are those that go on line.  The others are "left out" of the entire 
>> process and seemingly are disaffected.  They don't vote for officers, 
>> they don't attend meetings as they don't know of their times, etc,.  What 
>> a waste!
>> Tim Tomlinson
>> W. Central IL
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
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