From: ed@amigans.gen.nz (Edward Kitto)
Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Re: The Home Office
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 12:36:46 GMT+1
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, New Zealand

Ranald McIntosh writes:
>A message was posted on 21 Sep 1992 by ed@amigeans.gen.nz (Edward
>Kitto), with respect to the newsletter "The Home Office". Because the
>newsletter producer Bevis England does not currently use any BBS's,
>and as I am a member of "Work Raft" which receives the newsletter, I
>passed the message in it's entirety to Bevis.

What all three lines of it?
>His reply, posted by me on his behalf is as follows -

>  "1.  The `membership form'  (not a `request for more money') has
>  been included with every Home Office sent out, not just the August
>  issue.

>  2.  lf and when I decide that renewals are in order a request to
>  that specific effect will be circulated.  This has not happened
>   yet.

>  5.  The subscription form in the September Home Office (Which was
>  posted yesterday. October 5) is clearly marked `pass this to a
>  friend' I had always assumed that most members understood this,
>  and many members have joined through such `networking'.

Admittedly I have may have misunderstood but from my perpective all I 
knew
was that I had paid my sub and the newsletters ceased. When I finally
received the August one I naturally had doubts as to whether the same
thing would happen - wouldn't you?

>  4.  A number of members have written or spoken to me directly, on
>  the numbers quoted in the Home Office to clarify `why the long
>  silence' .  That the gentleman in questxon did not bother to do so
>  is an interesting comment in itself . . .   (One member queried
>  the `subscription form', resulting in point 3 above.)

Well excuse me. If courtesy is an issue here it is you, Mr England, who
is lacking. After all I don't live in Auckland and had no "local
knowledge". I should have thought the onus was on you to let your
subscribers know what was going on rather than leave them hanging. Why
should it be for me to go to the time and trouble to follow you up?

>  5.  The long silence itself was an unavoidable consequence of
>  building and moving into new quarters and having to cope with
>  major disruption and a rapidly increasing workload at the same
>  time.  Something had to give.

This is all very well but irrelevant to me.

>  6.  Subscriptions received during the long silence were not banked
>  until production had started again.

Ditto.

>   7.  The Home Office has never made money -- it costs me money.   I
>  am running it as a service because I believe in the concept of
>  working from home.  So when time presses there is no question what
>  has to give.  I try to earn money so I can afford to send out more
>  newsletters . . .

Ditto.

>  8.  Anyone else who believes working from home is a good idea and
>  worth promoting further should feel free to contact me at PO Box
>  118.  Albany, or StarNet 6401:TZQ240.

>  Regards.
>  Bevis England  0-9-473 1200"

>This is posted as a general message as it appears that Edward Kitto
>may have misunderstood the situation and the reasons for the hiatus
>in the issuing of the newsletter concerned. For those of us who work
>from home, the "Work Raft" organisation is very worthwhile, and the
>newsletter "The Home Office" keeps us in touch.

I wouldn't have paid my sub in the first place if I hadn't thought it
worthwhile. I should have thought that much was obvious. I don't like
this "holier than thou" attitude though.

>As with most organisations, it is not "What the organisation can do
>for me" that counts, but "What I can so for the organisation"!


I paid my sub.

>Ranald McIntos

Edward Kitto                

ed@amigans.gen.nz (Edward Kitto)
Newsgroups: nz.general