Hi Abel

Take a look at your 2004 issue of MA. Mine still has a large sticker on the cover pointing out that the Membership Manual is enclosed.

As I have posted before, there is no doubt that the financial well being of the AMA is tied to the insurance coverage provided landlords by the policy covering clubs. That being said, I have never been able to figure out your concern with the AMA, or for that matter, any business having risk management (or liability avoidence, as you prefer to call it) as a major goal. I have also posted that I think the President of the AMA is overly concerned with risk management. Can you give me an example of any business, that is still in business, that does not have a concern over risk management to some extent? I can't think of even one.

There was an AMA, and AMA clubs, before the landlord coverage, and, my guess is that they would exist now if there were no landlord coverage now. I would agree that they would not exist in the numbers that they do now.

None of this excuses the inital poster in this thread, who never even looked at the existing threads on the first page of threads in this forum. Many have not been happy with the DVD. The large majority, but not all, that have posted at least took time to look before posting, and posted in existing threads.

JR

edit: it was the August 2004 issue of MA that contained the Membership Manual.