Don't assume without proof that AMA sold the list itself to this company. They are smarter than that. Typically, I think the way it works is the mail merging and labeling and shipping happens at AMA, it has to, otherwise, there's little to stop the marketing guys with the video from re-selling the list to others or re-using it themselves, and then AMA would only get to sell or "rent" the list information once. That would be REALLY stupid, criminally stupid. By holding the list to themselves, they ensure they retain it's value for re-selling over and over. If they ARE just handing over a CD ROM of addresses to anybody who pays for it, the management need to be severely censured for bad management practices. So you don't like the DVD, it's your right not to pay for anything you didn't ask for. I think if you look thru your membership fine print, you can specify someplace that you opt out of any such lists for similar future projects.
I don't blame the Academy for seeking revenue enhancements other than across the board dues increases. Those are never popular, yet more than ever modelers need the Academy for it's help in keeping and getting fields and permissions in a world where the free space grows tighter every year. And we need their good offices lobbying for our interests for spectrum space as well, it's always under threat from more "commercial" interests. All that DOES take money, believe it or not. Voluntary contributions like this DVD idea may help defray costs, if they are executed properly. Whether that is the case here is not something I care to debate, not having a dog in that particular fight and not having seen the video in question. I will say I have a bunch of their old videos from the 80's and 90's that we used in club outreach and public mall show efforts and they were quality product for their era. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
