"Kevin Souter" scribed upon the newsgroup scroll
news:cWV2ZXJ5.5bb39690f2b975b214e4375d3487a44a@107 1005620.cotse.net:

Membership is only $15 a year.

http://www.rara.org/

Hmmmmm...... The subject says "everyone" please join, as if this
is some group oriented toward inclusiveness; however, the stated purpose
(via the link Kevin provided) says it's only for "...all individuals who
are supportive of sexual minorities and their lifestyles......".
Not very inclusive, is it?
Would you like to know who belongs to this group before you
consider joining? Sorry, not possible, according to the website: "The
roster is confidential and distribution outside of the membership is
prohibited." So, they'll take your membership money, but you can't find
out who else is a member until you join, and then, you have to keep those
names a secret. Just what we didn't need, another secret society.
Even Kevin's email address provided in the post is bogus. I would
imagine that anonymous posts to join secret societies would go without
mnay positive reponses.
This might explain why though claim they've been around for almost
9 years, and haven't been able to recruit but 100 members.

Of course, it could be they HAVEN'T been around for 9 years. This
post (again by Kevin) claims he's TRYING TO START an amateur radio club
for gays:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2...n&lr=&ie=UTF-8
&oe=UTF-8&selm=3ff20de2.145179266%40oryyfbhqu.arq&rnum=7

this link having today's date, 12/10/03. So, has it been around 9
years, is it getting started today, or is he just starting something to
compete with rara? The post referenced above narrows the membership
topic even mo "just gay Amateur radio talk".

Maybe, just maybe, he's just a troll????????????????


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