Forum Ramblings

[Dean Romig]

We PGCA Members know that there are some terrific benefits that come with the very reasonable $40 annual membership like the automatic subscription to Parker Pages, the Guns For Sale page of the forum and a few other forum pages as well. We also have the Membership Roster with addresses and contact information of those wishing to participate in sharing this imformation. We also share the benefit of being recognized by other PGCA Members as being PGCA Members ourselves, which keeps us in a certain "loop".
I think we can add other "PGCA Members Only" forum pages but I think we need to be careful because if we begin to exclude others and limit the number of forum 'accesses' then we stand the risk of being known as an "exclusive" club. We've been there before and I don't think we can afford that again.... being thought of and spoken of as "a club of elitists who refuse to share information" or "a bunch of nose-in-the-air Parker snobs who don't like outsiders".
I think we need to allow ourselves to be "used" but only to an extent. Research letters are more expensive to non-PGCA Members and there are other ways we can encourage Forum Members and lurkers to become PGCA Members so lets put our heads together and try to come up with some amicable ways of doing it.

JM$.02