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From: jwl@decwrl.UUCP (Jim Livingston)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Re: Major failing in forms design -- DECUS "Membership Audit"
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:58:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 01:58:59 1985
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This is my first posting to the net, but I hope it won't be my last.  The
article which elicited it was a response to one of the DECUS U.S. Chapter's
more egregious failures to acknowledge that both PDP-11 and VAX hardware run
a common base operating system.  I refer, of course, to the fact that UNIX
and Ultrix both were omitted from the membership audit questionaire.  This is
particularly troublesome to me, since I'm the Chair of the UNIX special interest
group, UniSIG.  We have a fairly large number of folks who identify themselves
as associated with the SIG, and I think they're probably all as irked as those
who've posted to the net.  Alas, those folks don't all read net news, and so
won't be privvy to the suggestion I'll make for dealing with the omission:
identify yourself as interested in UniSIG, and write in UNIX (in large letters)
on the audit form.  I'll make certain that those entries are counted by the
data collectors back in the DECUS staff office!  In addition to thus expressing
yourself, please ask your colleagues who get the form to be sure to do the same
thing, and to send it in to the DECUS office; if they aren't returned, the SIG
loses, and we're just beginning to get something solidly going.  Watch this
space for previews of the Anaheim DECUS symposium.

James W. Livingston, Jr.
DECUS UniSIG Chair
Measurex Corporation
One Results Way
Cupertino, CA  95014
(408) 255-1500 x5556