*** their (not 'there') : )

Geeze!

I don't know about that....they should have taken into consideration the "intent" and the context of your using it. Plus, when you say "nasty", I wonder how nasty it was indeed. I truly feel from the bottom of my heart that this flies in the face of the spirit of the N.G.S. as conceived by Gardiner Hubbard, Alexander G. Bell, and probably Melville Bell Grosvenor.

I am very very displeased w/ the unfortunate transformation the NGS went through inthe 1990's and into the 2000's. It became to corporate, too much of a "brand" thing. I can say alot more, but I'll hold my tongue for the moment.

They should have been happy that such devoted people support them to begin with (collector's & long-standing "members"). Nowadays all I feel like is a customer ID #.

Very sad. And to think Gilbert M. Grosvenor wrote in a 1980's column that he wanted to reinforce the aura of membership, family, home, close-nit values.

Tsk tsk tsk.

~ Scott S.

Here is what I was able to salvage of the page from archive.org

http://gary.arndt.com/ngcollector

Remember, this was years ago. I don't think I'd have the site look so bad now. The fake text I added after I recovered it.