Until SLAS decided protect my personal information from spammers and telemarketers, I decided to remove my email and phone from my profile. Come to find out that the software REQUIRES a phone number in that field. So I put in a row of 9's until this is sorted out. As a related issue, if the news letter is available to nonmembers, what is the incentive to pay dues and join? Most star parties are open to the public, and even the private ones are not fenced so that non members can just drive in and set up. The meetings are also open to the public. If members have no interest in the observatory or the the boardroom politics, there is little reason to join. DT --- Michael Carnes <michaelcarnes@earthlink.net> wrote:
Just on general principle, I hate to advertise the list of people who will probably not be home on meeting nights, along with their address and phone numbers.
Not only that, but spam trolling software will quickly find the email addresses and phone numbers and immediately bless us with even more junk.
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