Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site almsa-1 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!almsa-1!control From: control@almsa-1 (William Martin) Newsgroups: net.decus Subject: Major failing in forms design -- DECUS "Membership Audit" Message-ID: <183@almsa-1> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:32:12 EDT Article-I.D.: almsa-1.183 Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:32:12 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:55:43 EDT Distribution: net Organization: ALMSA-1, St. Louis, MO Lines: 27 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 ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA UUCP/Usenet: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin