[Boatanchors] Sacred Cows

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mikea wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:32:41AM -0600, Bob Peters wrote:
> 
>>Fred I would really like to see you join QCWA. As President of a chapter
>>I can honestly say that it is a great organization that does a great
>>deal for Amateur Radio and especially for the students and the
>>scholarship program.
>>The monthly get together and the fellowship is great. The one mistake
>>that they almost made but did not happen has been forgiven. Lets go
>>onward and upward in our membership. Please reconsider your decision.
> 
> 
> You write, "The one mistake that they almost made but did not happen has
> been forgiven."
> 
> Forgiven by whom? In my day job I run the mail filters for a very large
> state government agency in the midwest. I deal with the results of sold
> and stolen mailing lists every day. Though I am eligible for membership in
> QCWA, having got my Novice ticket in 1962, I'm very troubled that QCWA's
> officers would even _CONSIDER_ selling their membership list, and am
> leaning towards not joining because of that incident.
> 

Also, the showed no remorse or gave any apology, so how can they be forgiven? 
The last I heard, they cosider this a viable money making scheme.


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