Online Prof you should not let people on this board scare you. The way they treated you and responded to you should have proved why there needs to be a change. Whenever the small components of an organization start making up its own rules, as this chapter is doing, the chances increase that the whole organization will suffer. In fact, I would go one step further than you did and say that all bulletin board control goes through the national aaup website administration so that administration of members’ dues ensures only they get issued a password. Members would have to access their local bulletin board through the national website. This also gets around the comments that other members or webmaster will know who the posters are. It would matter little if the national administration knows who the posters are since they will know anyway when those members pay their dues and because they were elected. People here who do not pay dues should not be using the services paid for by other aaup members. My method will increase dues and get more recognition for the aaup.

You are not the only faculty member that feels the way you do—or at least used to. Please email me a copy of your proposal to doitmyway@hotmail.com. I have the filters set to receive email from  onlineprof@myway.com.

**Note that deletion of this post or blocking my ip will serve as further evidence why this board needs to be member’s only.