> If you contact me directly, I will pass
> along their emails and or/ addresses.
> Bill Winans
Bill.....
Before you pass out information pertaining to other S scale guys, you might
want to read the President's Message in the current issue of the NMRA Magazine.
It talks in detail about the new privacy laws that are rapidly developing and
their impact on the NMRA and membership listings and so forth. To put things
in a nutshell, privacy laws are rapidly catching up with modern technology and
things are changing. The NMRA has already dealt with one lawsuit regarding
privacy from an unhappy member whose name and contact information was given out
to someone else without his specific authorization.
In short, the new NMRA policy is that no membership information is to be given
out to anyone except organization officials and only for offical use. The NMRA
membership directory is no more as we all know. But other "new stuff" is the
unwillingness of the NMRA to send you information pertaining to layouts in the
area you are planning to visit while on vacation. The restrictions go on and
on from there.
Of course, if a member has given permission for his personal information to be
distributed, it is then not a problem. The NMRA is now figureing out the best
way to ask all 20,000+ members if it has their permission to divulge contact
information. The future is uncertain.
Be cautious. Cheers....Ed L.
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