ORIGINAL: Red Scholefield
ORIGINAL: MikeL
ORIGINAL: Red Scholefield
The purpose is for AMA club secretary to determine in an individual is in fact a paid up member. You get all kinds of people claiming that they are members when they are not. It takes no talent whatsoever to phony up an AMA card changing the date of expiration or to make one up totally from scratch.
And that's a perfectly legitimate purpose. The AMA member's only area can differentiate between those who are and are not club officers, so that sort of query should be restricted to club officers and CDs. Horrace is abusing the database by using it to vet people's identities here.
I strongly dislike that sort of abuse. The willingness to engage in it here makes me question what such a person would do if more data were available to him. I intend to make an issue of this with the AMA. It's time to take the toys away from the children.
Mike,
Do you ever attend an AMA sanctioned meet? Do you sign up putting name, address and AMA number on the forms? Do you belong to a club with a newsletter? Does it periodically publish a membership list?, does it have a membership list on their web site? Do you put your AMA card on the frequency board as required at most club sites? Do you have your AMA number on your models? Do you ever send pictures of your models to a magazine where your name is published? Have you ever hung up a model for sale in the local hobby shop with your name, address, phone number? Are you in your local phone book? Why are you so timid in letting your name and AMA number being known like a man that is not afraid to stand for what he belives. If you don't believe in yourself you have my pitty.
Also add your your car tag number to this list. With a little time and effort all your info is available to anyone.