Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 15:54:38 EST
From: justin@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Mark Waks)
Message-Id: <9403112054.AA20923@dsd.camb.inmet.com>
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9403112030.AA61425@acs4.bu.edu> (lowell@acs.bu.edu)
Subject: re: A Plot to keep our burough "members"

Lowell writes, in response to me:
>>                                               Think about all those
>> Peers who only show up for one or two events a year now, but who are a
>> real joy when they do show up.
>
>I'd like to point out that those Peers are only the tip of an iceberg.

He is, of course, entirely correct. I was using the Peers as a bit
of a rhetorical device, to point out that *anyone*, no matter how
involved, can go through burnout, or otherwise experience a case of
Life, and drop down to a relatively low level of activity.

However, losing the folks who help provide the atmosphere, by joining
in our group experience, is just as painful, if not more so. And a lot
of them aren't going to find $20 a year for a couple of events to be
an especially good investment...

				-- Justin
				   Being clear as mud, as usual...

Random Quote du Jour:

"(Sanjiv Sarwate) writes: 
 > Gaiman should be very thankful that not a lot of fundies read Sandman, 
 > because he makes Lucifer into almost a sympathetic character.
 I guess we should also be thankful that not a lot of fundies have read PARADISE
 LOST, as Milton does the same thing."
		-- Chris Jarocha-Ernst