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Subject: Re: Comparing Organizations
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:13:22 GMT

   It appears that due to slowness in the internet my last two 
messages will be appearing in reverse order. 

    Apart from fully funded Members, attempts to compare CI Membership
numbers with Alcor numbers would be procrustean. A CI Option One
Member has paid a $1,250 Membership fee, which is not comparable
to any Alcor category that I know of. A CI Option Two Member has 
paid a $75 Initiation fee and $120 per year Membership Dues. Option One
and Option Two Memberships only confer the priviledge of creating 
a fully-funded membership with executed contracts -- plus subscription to
THE IMMORTALIST.  Any attempt to provide a number of "applicants" 
would be arbitrary. We have a drawer full of messages from "applicants"
and people who are "thinking about it" or "wanting more information". 
This process goes on for years and years, in many cases. 

                         -- Ben Best 

          From: Michael Riskin
 
Thank you Ben, for clarifying this. Apparently, when you and Mr. Ettinger  
refer to "members" it is in a different frame of reference. For the sake of  


consistency, lets all identify a "member" as someone fully signed up and funded.
Any body else who has shown interest but is not funded or signed up can be a  
"supporting member", and anyone who has actually started their paperwork 
towards  becoming a "member" may be called an "applicant" if that is all right 
with  you.
 
So, when Mr Ettinger discusses CI's rapid growth rate, apparently his count  
includes the "supporting member" type, which by itself is a larger group than  
the " member" group. Alcor has disclosed its "applicant" group numbers. Does 
CI  have a similar count of applicants available? 

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