[Wylug-discuss] Suggestion for website

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 16 May 2007, Dave Fisher wrote:

> Just in case anyone is inclined to read the John's points as a mirror
> image contrast with my own views, I'd like to make the following clear:

It wasn't intended as a diametrically opposite view.

>  b) By concensus, advocacy work has been an accepted part of WYLUG's
>     activity for years, so it is quite wrong of John to say that "WLYUG
>     isn't a lobbying or advocacy group".  It clearly is from time to
>     time ... and it's also a lot of other (more important?) things,
>     more often.

I guess I see advocacy as something we choose to do because of our aims
without advocacy being an actual 'duty' of WYLUG.

> In short, WYLUG is what its members wish it to be ... and, as far as I'm
> concerned, that applies to the issue of planets as much as anything
> else.

That was really the point I was waving my hand in the direction of, rather
than really making it.

jh

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