Re: joining IAS

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2001.06.14 at 16:22:41(6741) Paul! Thank you for your letter. I am glad that amidst my main thrusts, my subtle requests to please join and share within our wonderfully benign, positive go-ahead, thoughtful, kind, generous community have fallen on your fertile Antipodean ground and that of your good friends. I hoped my evangelising would help all the good people in Aroid L become good Members. So, there will probably be an interlude before any further rallying calls to wait for newcomers to Aroid-L. Regarding your last sentence, I grow living things and disfavour taxidermy. I put this on Aroid L in which you have richly dialogued as an accolade for your enthusiasm. The Plant Mart which I hope will greatly enable Members with their Collections will begin in the next interim July News. Best Wishes & anticipating my Welcome Ron +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:47 AM Subject: joining IAS | | Ron, | | I think most of us who are not IAS members have got the hint to join. When | I can afford to do so I WILL be doing so, however the constant badgering to | join is actually starting to put a couple of us off the whole idea (I have | discussed this with one or two others and they agree it is very irritating). | | Do you HAVE to keep going on about it? Enthusiasm is one thing.... | bludgeoning over the head is another!! | | I've sent this directly to you rather than to the list obviously enough as | it is a personal email. This comment is not meant personally, it is just a | comment. I've always been turned off by the hard sell on anything. Sales | people find that out pretty quickly. | | I'm mentioning all this just to say that you might just scare people off | the aroid-l who aren't members of the IAS. I don't think you want to do | that as this is a good source of members. | | As I said, Please don't be offended by this email as it is not meant that | way. If you want me to go and get stuffed just tell me and I will. | | Regards... | | Paul Tyerman |

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