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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 16 Feb 91 01:41:50 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 2
Message 84        Wed Feb 13, 1991
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 23:27 CST
 
 To Dennis, Jax, Anil, etc. - re FIG & dues hike
 .
 Well, I agree with Anil and add my hope that any FIG dropouts will  re-join. 
I burned myself out a year or two ago over the FIG dues  question.  At the
time I thought the membership figures dropping  correlated with the rising
dues, and that the rising dues might have  *caused* the declining membership. 
I felt then that a return to  $15/year dues as in FIG's "heyday" might turn
around the membership  decline. (And might help lower the average age of FIG
members.) I'd  rather have the magazine on cheap paper going to lots of people
than on  slick paper going to just a few.  And, yet, if the board says we
can't  drop the dues down, and must raise them again, I suppose they must 
know.  Of course, I can't help wondering how high the dues will have to  be
when there are only 15 members left (joke).  Did I see that the  single issue
price for Forth Dimensions was to be $10.00?  Unless the  issue in question
has an article written by me, I feel that's a little  steep.
 .
 -- Frank
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