the National (was Richard Oliver Snelsons Unhappiness)

[John Musselwhite]

At 08:00 PM 09/12/02 -0500, BB wrote:

>I still think we ought to change the language in the bylaws and all the 
>promo materials to remove those archaic "Annual Convention" words and 
>change them to reflect what virtually everyone calls it, "the 
>National".  Let's get up to date on this!

Thank you very much for attempting to alienate those of us who pay the same 
dues but who don't belong to your nation, Bill. It fits right in with many 
of your other posts.

Perhaps you're not up to date on this, but there are a lot of members who 
attend the Annual Convention who are not Americans. In fact, the most 
successful Convention ever was held in Canada.  Call it "the national" 
casually if you wish, but any attempts to change the official term to suit 
you will be met with a lot more resistance than you might expect.

                 John

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