P3D Re: NSA Auction ---Stereo Slides?????

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Davis wrote:

> So when you say you contacted the NSA, which sliver of the Association
> did you reach?

I don't want to turn this into something personal.  Let me just
say I e-mailed someone who sent a brief reply and also forwarded
my message to the proper person.

> Bob Duncan, the guy who handles the Auctions is *not* on this list.
> Since the Auctions are arranged independently of the rest of the
> Convention, no P3D members on the rest of the convention team would
> have thought to post anything here unless asked.  Hence no mention.

My complaint is that scoldings for failing to contribute should
not be posted to P3D if requests for contributions were not posted
during the appropriate time frame.

> Just checked my archived copy of the Website.  A Consignment form
> only on the Auction link, no guidelines.  Hmm...

I also reviewed the auction information that came with SW, and
noticed that there is no mention at all of donations.  Maybe
this is not something NSA officially sanctions?

> You actually waited months to open a Stereo World based on reports and
> opinions from *this* list?  I take it back. *You* put the "pro" in
> procrastinator.  I pale by comparison. :--)

OK, I'll come out of the closet:  In the year or so I've been
receiving SW, I doubt I've read more than 10% of the content.
I don't anxiously await its arrival and wouldn't miss it if it
never came.  (Hold the too-easy jokes about how far behind they
are, please.)  Heck, I might have another older copy around some-
where not yet opened.  I wouldn't subscribe if it were optional,
instead of included in the membership.

> Why don't you copy your post over to John Dennis at Stereo World
> (stereoworld@xxxxxxxx)?  Publishing it would give the subject a much
> wider exposure to the membership of NSA than this list.

I'm growing more confused about how NSA, the auction, and the idea
of donating items to NSA by way of the auction really fit together.
Is anyone beside "Bill who" donating this way?  Does NSA want to
receive donations this way?  Maybe I should never have assumed
that the scolding messages that have appeared here were anything
more than a "lone gunman."  If NSA does not support or encourage
this procedure, than I apologize for the portions of my comments
that may have seemed to indict the organization as a co-conspirator.

And now some good points have been made as to why this practice
should not be widely encouraged, so I don't know what I will do.

Paul Talbot


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