I may be wrong but I had a feeling that some while ago IOLI 'asked permission' and did anyone mind if they put the reminders onto Arachne, as it potentially can save them quite a lot of money in posted reminders, meaning that either they can keep memberships fees lower or have more money available for other lace related projects.
It is such a small item compared to the total input to Arachne, and is very useful if your renewal is due. I don't think it will start a rush of similar postings as most groups have a fixed date for renewals which are much easier to handle as the reminder can go into the appropriate issue of a magazine. IOLI and the UK Lace Circle are the only two I know of which renew depending on when you join. IOLI is a big organisation with a substantial international membership - I don't think we will ever get the small, local groups (which is presumably who you are thinking of in your phrase 'untold numbers') wanting to send out reminders in this way as it is not appropriate to the way the group would be run. If your objection is that you are paying to download this information which you personally aren't interested in, then a better target to reduce download time would be to remind people to cut off irrelevent repeat posts which sometimes (often!) fill more of a digest than the actual posts. Once this reminder is downloaded you can just scroll past it as the heading is quite clearly saying what it is. There are lots of things that come onto Arachne that I would ignore/delete; an example that springs to mind is "I'm looking for....." That post is only of interest to maybe one or two people but is still important to the person that sent it and possibly to the person it's aimed at. But there are quite a few of those over the year. Another would be an ad for a lace day, often in another country which I obviously am not going to go to. But they are still important to the organisers and for potential attendees, and again quite a lot of them. Surely we can tolerate things on Arachne that aren't of interest to us personally, because on the whole the posts are interesting, thought provoking, educational and often entertaining. And you're not obliged to read it all :-) Jacquie in Lincolnshire, England - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
