"KC4UAI" wrote ... > I understand the feelings, but I think that there is more to the > "Diamond Terrace" than just a bunch of bricks that folks walk on. I > believe that the point of this idea is to help fund the ARRL and not > just to put bricks on the ground. There are a number of ways to > donate to the ARRL, this diamond terrace thing is just the latest > fundraising idea. (Which by the way doesn't originate with the ARRL. > I've seen this, get a special brick made thing, used for a number of > years.) > > I really don't think the intent was to offend anybody, only to provide > a means of raising money for the ARRL. To that end I'm OK with it, > though I am unlikely to participate for many of the same reasons you > don't like the idea. OTOH, many of us could think of someone (or something) that would give us a satisfying feeling to think that people were walking all over it. And to raise $$ for the ARRL is just an additional bennefit! :-) Do you think they would put "BPL" on a brick? (Or "FCC"? :-)

"Cecil Moore" wrote ... > KC4UAI wrote: >> I really don't think the intent was to offend anybody, only to provide >> a means of raising money for the ARRL. > > Isn't the ARRL supposed to be non-profit? "Non profit" doesn't mean "zero-budget" or "no-income" or "can't raise money by selling bricks". Does it?

Michael Coslo <mjc5@psu.edu> wrote: > > Non-Profit institutions raise money in many ways. Bake sales, hoagie > sales, donate a vehicle and have it auctioned off with the proceeds > going to the nonprofit. Volunteer Fire companies do it a lot, so do many > other non-profits. It's actually a pretty good thing. Once upon a time, the ARRL was able to pay its bills with dues income, magazine sales and book sales. The fact that is must now resort to such "creative" fundraising simply underlines the fact that it is gradually but inexorably moving toward extinction.

In article <MPG.215b4aa1d4dc22c7989716@news.frontiernet.net>, Steven Stone <spfleck@citlink.net> wrote: > | Once upon a time, the ARRL was able to pay its bills with dues > |income, magazine sales and book sales. The fact that is must now resort > |to such "creative" fundraising simply underlines the fact that it is > |gradually but inexorably moving toward extinction. > | > > Or greedy or just plain too fat with paid employees for it's own good. Or innovative and beginning new programs which require funding....