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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2562343, member: 59677&quot;]The two clubs I belong to are very different.</p><p><br /></p><p>One is an old club (Ft Worth, 1954) and still tries to follow the old rules, including voting on memberships. They have formal meeting minutes, officers sit at the front, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>But they are a warm and welcoming bunch, the members remember who is who and what your interests are. They&#039;re also very interested in learning, to the point where I was shanghaied to do a preso by about my 3rd month as a member. So I go even though it&#039;s 45m to an hour each way.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other is a newer club (NetCC, 2002?), founded because the people started informally meeting to fill a spatial vacuum between the two big established clubs. The original founders are still active. But it too is a warm and welcoming bunch (a fair bit of cross-over in membership). It&#039;s a little closer, on a different Thursday and fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two other clubs (Dallas and Colin County) I would attend except for the drive and because they meet on the 3rd Thursday which conflicts with other meetings I should be attending. And I&#039;d have to pick one or the other. I&#039;ve attended one meeting of each (dueling Mexican restaurants, both pretty good) and felt welcomed at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a 3rd club that also meets on this day and I&#039;ve thought about it, but can&#039;t find out any info (they have joint meetings with the Colin County club apparently a couple times a year).</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was up in Washington State, the Olympia coin club was also very welcoming.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m sorry for your bad experiences - I hope they are uncommon![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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