From sersun1!uknet!doc.ic.ac.uk!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!fishpond!fnf Mon Jan 18 17:18:13 GMT 1993 Article 20755 of comp.sys.amiga.misc: Path: sersun1!uknet!doc.ic.ac.uk!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!fishpond!fnf >From: fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: to be or not to be Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 93 05:54:30 GMT Organization: Amiga Library Services Lines: 35 Over the last couple of years, I've noticed a trend where fewer and fewer people are on my direct subscriber list. This last year has seen a particularly sharp decrease, from about an average of 75 subscribers to the current low of 41. That's right, there are only 41 people or organizations in the whole world that receive disks directly from me as of Jan 17, 1993, with about half of them being outside the United States. During this last year, the amount of time I have had available to spend constructing disks, doing accounting, and otherwise managing the library has also dropped sharply, so that more than ever I depend upon using outside help for things like presorting the submitted material, creating prototype disks which I then use for constructing the final disks, and doing the actual duplication, packaging, and shipping of the disks. I cannot expect these people to work for nothing, so I have been paying them reasonable compensation for their time out of the ever dwindling subscription income. It has reached the point where sometime in the next month or two I will make a decision about whether or not to shut down the library, since if there are insufficient incoming funds to meet the operating costs as well as pay for an occasional perk like a trip to an Amiga show once or twice a year, or some new hardware toy, there is little incentive to continue spending 20-30 hours a month running it. If you are in a position to influence a club, computer store, or other Amiga related organization to maintain a direct subscription for new disks, and thus help fund continued maintenance of the library, and are interested in seeing the library continue to grow, I'd urge you to consider doing what you can to help push the number of direct subscribers back up to more reasonable levels. Thanks. -Fred -- |\/ o\ Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA |/\__/ 1-602-491-0048 {asuvax,mcdphx,cygint,amix}!fishpond!fnf