On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:25:08 -0700, John Smith wrote:

It is far from sane to attempt to hold amateur and the ridiculously low
numbers it now has, being the smallest minority on the planet, it already
lacks sufficient numbers to be able to do anything...

Rather, it is time to attract real technical savvy people to the hobby and
bring it up to date and with a membership large enough to have a voice...

"DO NOTHING! CHANGE NOTHING!" has been the call for decades, with very
negative results and is the reason we have ended up here behind the times
with ancient members or SK members--only a fool could possibly counsel to
continue that course of action (or rather, inaction.)

As has been pointed out here many times, the number of licences
world-wide has been stable for a long time.

73 de Jock.
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