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From: boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: How to join IEEE Comp Society?
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Date: 17 Dec 90 21:50:08 GMT
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In article <7Hg8T4w163w@cs.fau.edu>, theo@cs.fau.edu (Theo Heavey) writes:
|> 
|> Does anyone out there know how to join the IEEE Computer Society
|> WITHOUT joining IEEE? I am a computer science major and after reading
|> the last 6 months of the Spectrum (in those *)(^&^%^%$^% plastic bags!)
|> have found it totally lacking for my area.

You may join the Computer Society by becoming an IEEE member, then
adding the Computer Society for an additional $22/year.  That is 
apparently what you've already done.

The other possibility is to join the Computer Society as an affiliate
member of the IEEE.  The cost of this is the $22/year which goes
to the Computer Society, and 1/2 of the standard IEEE membership
fee.  This year, that combined number will be $54.

Note that the affiliate membership makes you a full member, not a student
member.  By IEEE Bylaws, there is no way to join only the Computer Society
(or any other IEEE society) as an affiliate without being an IEEE student
member.

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Joseph Boykin
Manager, Mach OS Development
Encore Computer Corp
Treasurer, IEEE Computer Society

Internet: boykin@encore.com
Phone: 508-460-0500 x2720