X-Message-Number: 7436
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:23:13 -0600
From:  (Steve Jackson)
Subject: The solicitation for the upcoming convention

I found this, to put it briefly, very disturbing. The whole style and tone
of the advertisement was inappropriate for any legitimate organization -
let alone one already fighting against perceptions that it is a nut cult or
a scam. With the repeated arm-waving about "Don't be left out! Only 120
places!" this package looked like junk mail designed for suckers. I see
this kind of thing in the trash that I get every day from pyramid
marketers, stock touts and other such bottom-feeders. I didn't expect it
from Alcor.

Yes, we need better marketing to tell our story. But this is not better
marketing; this is WORSE marketing. Please stop.

It makes a very bad impression. Even I, a committed and fully signed up
suspension member, find myself wondering what kind of group Alcor really
is, to send this thing out.

Please tell me that we hired a new consultant, that everybody in the office
was sick for a week and therefore nobody checked his work before it was
sent, and that he's been fired.

But don't tell me that this kind of solicitation has become our policy!



 Steve Jackson - yes, of SJ Games - yes, we won the Secret Service case
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