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"We undersDuring the past two years I have filled a loose-leaf notebook with my copies of letters from ADAM owners all over the United States, and my replies to them directing them to AUGs in their own general areas. I have always been delighted to do this, as a service to my fellow members in the ADAM community 

I intend to happily continue to do so, whenever the occasion arises. However, I do feel it would be fairer, and somewhat more generous to a group whose postage costs are more than twice yours, if the U.S. ADAM User Groups undertook a little responsibility for their own recruitment. 
 
The reason I get so many letters from the U.S. is quite simple.  There are innumerable desperate ADAM owners out there who finally stumbled across the User Group listings assembled by FOG International for Computer Shopper, and on scanning them through found exactly one ADAM club - the Metro Toronto ADAM Group. So in desperation they wrote, and I responded. (It would be nice if even one of them had ever written back to say thank you, especially since I've subsequently seen some of the names on U.S. AUG membership lists, but none ever has). 
 
However, running a job, a family, a club, and an ADAM convention already puts rather heavy demands on my time. I would therefore ask that every ADAM User Group, and every BBS supporting ADAM, write directly to FOG User Group Listing, P.O. Box 3474, Daly City, CA., U.S.A. 94015-0474, or fax to (415) 755-3482, or E-mail to OFFICE.FOG on GEnie, 347-8112 or FOG on MCI Mail, or 71561,570 on Compuserve, or Fog-6 on their BBS (415) 755-8315 as a comment to the sysop, and give data necessary for their own listings. 
 
It is not that I am unwilling to support the ADAM community as I have done; I have had a lot of fun, and it's a great ego trip.  It's also an excellent goodwill generator for the club. But I do feel that since the listings are free - the only cost is a little time and a first-class postage stamp - that it might be time that the beneficiary clubs took on some of the time and cost burden for their own recruitment. In addition, it is much easier to convince a potential AUG recruit that there is something going on in the ADAM world if he can find twenty club listings and forty BBSs, instead of one and zero respectively - and that one in a foreign country. 
 
On my experience, there is very substantial drawing power to a FOG listing in, now, Computer Buyer's Guide. I suspect the power would be much greater if the readers saw a number of listings, perhaps including one offering a local phone call instead of international phone charges or postal complications. And letters replied to build memberships fast - our local experience proves that. 
 
So please, AUGs out there - get your listing in to FOG now. It really is time you gave me just a little rest. 
 
generator for the club. But I do feel that 
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