[MR] How NAIS negatively affects people in the SCA

[Anthony Bryant]

Sharon Gordon wrote:

> Sorry I didn't explain about how this would affect SCA people as I thought
> the implications would be obvious.    However I should have listed the items
> in the first email to make it obvious that I am concerned about the wide
> variety of negative impacts on  SCA activities and not making generic
> requests for preserving US freedoms.   Extended NAIS regulations including,
> the chipping, constant monitoring of the movement of any animal, added costs
> of chipping and monitoring, etc. could affect:


Ah!

Well, y'see, THIS makes more sense, and is something that 
likely WOULD have attracted some positive attention. I'll 
bet a large number of people just see a typical political 
commentary that could have come from anywhere and deleted it 
without reading it. That's what I usually do, but I'm just 
tired of seeing those things.

It's called "fitting the message to the market." If you'd 
written something like this and expressed these types of 
concerns, I might have read it rather than thinking "oh, 
great, another luny political screed" and hit "delete."

Had you actually posted a message making it look more 
relevant, I wouldn't have responded as I did.

I spent too many years as an editor, where the person 
sending me a story or query had to make the case and draw me 
in in the first paragraph to get me to read the whole thing.


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