Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!jwl From: jwl@decwrl.UUCP (Jim Livingston) Newsgroups: net.decus Subject: Re: Major failing in forms design -- DECUS "Membership Audit" Message-ID: <3144@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:58:59 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3144 Posted: Wed Jul 17 01:58:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:31:49 EDT References: <183@almsa-1> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 24 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