On 12/8/06, at 3:53 PM, faramineux faramineux at comcast.net said: >On Dec 7, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: > >Have you ever been to a MUG? Of those I've been to, I'd say 75% of the >members are 55+. At 64 when I go to a MUG meeting on my GSX-R1000, I look around and I'm usually the youngest one in the audience. The reasons -- 1. we geezers have the time to go to these meetings - gets us out of the house. 2. whippersnappers probably have better things to do with their time. Frankly, with all the available information available on the web, I'm surprised that MUGs are able to survive. Anyway, nowadays many organizations have a hard time keeping active members -- "civic disengagement." Tom Miller .................................................. "The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side." R.O.Clark ...................................................