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From: control@almsa-1 (William Martin)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Major failing in forms design -- DECUS "Membership Audit"
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:32:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:32:12 1985
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Just received a DECUS "Membership Audit" form in the mail, and am
filling it out. I turn it over and look at the top of the back side,
where it asks for entries under the categories of:

MAJOR OPERATING SYSTEMS? LANGUAGES USED:

(This form is set up for mark-sense reading, and has fill-in-the-circle
marks for the choices selected; no provision for write-ins.)

Do I find an entry for "UNIX"? *NO!* Do I even find an entry for
"ULTRIX"? *NO!* There is an entry for "C" under the "languages" section,
but, as far as DECUS is concerned, it seems like the entire UNIX world,
a quite significant section of the DEC marketplace, does not exist!

I wrote in "UNIX" anyway. If there is anyone reading this who has some
official position in the DECUS US Chapter office, please take immediate
action to pull all copies of this form and either reprint them with UNIX
(and Ultrix) entries, or modify them to add these entries, and also instruct
the people processing the forms to look for write-ins for UNIX in this section.

To anyone out there who receives a copy of this form, please write-in
"UNIX" (if you use it, and it would be likely if you can read this...).

Good grief!
Will Martin

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