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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: FIG Suspends Chapter Coordinator!
Message-ID: <918.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 90 00:09:04 GMT
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Category 8,  Topic 24
Message 19        Sun May 06, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 18:57 EDT
 
Jack, the FIG mailing list is the property of FIG and the come under the
province of the Business Group.  We have both sold it and exchanged it with
others in the past.  We have also had to purchase mailing lists from others. 
Since I am not aware of George's request, I can not comment on the specifics
of it.  However, 500 address in exchange for a couple of thousand does not
appear to be a very good trade.  Especially when there is (very likely) quite
a bit of overlap between the two lists.

There does seem to be quite a lot of competitive tendancies between George
Shaw and FIG, but I do not think the FIG Board of Directors views the ACM
SIGForth group as competitors.  I personally, would like to see us work very
close together, and I can think of many ways we can benifit each other. 
However, this does not mean placing all of FIG resources at the disposal of
ACM for free.  I would expect some exchange to be worked out first.

Let not the promotion of Forth get in the way of the responsible business
management of FIG.  All power to the programmer!

DaR
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