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From: boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: How to join IEEE Comp Society?
Message-ID: <13612@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 90 18:08:07 GMT
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In article <388@srchtec.UUCP>, johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin) writes:
|> In article <13565@encore.Encore.COM> boykin@encore.com writes:
|> 
|> >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.
|> 
|> Hunnh?
|> 
|> Could you expound upon that?  Normally, I'm not "reading impaired," but
|> this sounds like a contradiction to me.  Is an Affiliate member of the
|> IEEE-CS considered a student member of IEEE, or a full member?

Sorry about that.  Let me try again.  If you want to join as a student
member, and hence receive the student rate and the IEEE student
publication (I forget the name), the only way to do so is join the IEEE
and add the Computer Society.  If you do not want to join as a
student (or cannot),  you may *either* join the IEEE and add the
Computer Society, or join only the Computer Society as an Affiliate
member.

Is this any clearer?


|> What about voting members of the ACM who were asked to join IEEE-CS?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean.  ACM members must join both the
IEEE and the Computer Society to receive the $5 discount.  You do not
receive the discount if you join the Computer Society as an Affiliate 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