Sat Jan 11 18:38:51 1997 - Message No. 299
From: Michael Dipper

Subject: 3rd @ meeting - visitor limitations


Hi,

I just talked to Beppe referring to our problem with an oncoming
overcrowded AT-meeting. Some people have written to me and suggested to
use a campground or youth-hostel for the visitors above the
40-person-limit. But:

We decided that the visitor limitation of +/- 40 people will stay.
There are some reasons for it and I hope youīll understand us:

- The intention of this event is to meet other people from out of the
net and especially from out of the @ mailinglist. As we decided on the
last meeting, we donīt wanīt to found an official club with membership
cards, club newspaper, reglementations and all the problems arising in
such an "official" institution.
We are just a loose connection of @ bikers on the net and everybody who
wantīs to have more is free to found an official @ club. Iīll be your
first member, but currently I donīt have fun and time to do such a huge
job myselves.

- The conclusion of this is, that everybody out of the mailinglist or
known on an other way may join the meeting. Of course you can bring
along a friend, if you donīt want to do the long trip to Italy alone,
but recently I got some mails of @ freaks that wanted to bring along
their whole local @ club.   Currently we (and especially Beppe) donīt
have the capacity to manage such an event !

- Think about, that if you exceed a special limit of participants,
youīll have to think about money to spend, authorities licenses and
permits , a complete program, sponsors, presentations and so on ...
But this was never our intention:
 This meeting is completely self organized. The only thing Beppe can
provide, is an overnight place and some basics for breakfast and lunch.
Of course weīll try to offer some interesting trips during the meeting
but the meetings "spirit" will arise from the participants and not from
giant planned events !

- The suggestion of additional overnight places on campgrounds wonīt
solute the problem. Either these people stay among themselves (on their
"own" meeeting) or they will join the "Cavallara team" for common events
and if this happens, the problem of a too high number of visitors arises
again as stated out above.

- Additionally I want to remark that, I think, some of the "regular"
readers of the mailinglist are still missing on the booking list. I
would like to meet all of them and I think we can still accept some more
(4-5) participants (the V.I.P.īs :-)) out of them, but I wonīt accept
any further registrations for whole @ owner groups.

This is not because I donīt want to meet them. I donīt want to exclude
somebody because of a non-net-connectivity or similar, but currently we
donīt have the capacity for a huge numer of visitors and I hope youīll
understand me.

Of course you may still contact me to get on the "secondary booking
list" or to give me your statments referring to this mail.

BTW all bookings printed on the annoucement page are guaranteed, of
course.

--- Micha ---

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