"I'M boycotting the AOS"

[Eyebabe]

I support the AOS and have been a member for several years.
I am online and fully computer literate; however, I love their magazine. Although all the articles are not useful to me, I particularly enjoy the photos that I can appreciate with a cup of coffee in the bright sunlight on my back porch---where I can't view a PC screen without glare :P
As far as the cost of running an organization, well, the presumptions made that an online version would greatly affect this is laughable to me.
AOS is more than a magazine and both a magazine and a web-blog require man hours to maintain.
Man hours cost money, period. Volunteers are nice, but if you want an organization to have any substance whatsoever, you need paid employees. I speak from experience in serving on the boards of both fully volunteer organizations and hybrids where most are volunteers with a core group of employees running the show.
These employees not only get the magazine out, they also as others have stated, maintain the judging system, record of awarded plants etc. Furthermore, they also organize the volunteers!
If it were not for the AOS, it would have been a lot more difficult for me to find the resources I have locally, and I could go on and on.
I feel my membership is worth $65 per year.
There is a lot more than a magazine there...