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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 13 Feb 91 02:53:43 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 02-10-91 (09:29)              Number: 1116 of 1116 (Echo)
   To: ANIL RODRIX                   Refer#: 1087
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: FORTH INTEREST GROUP RAIS     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 -> Its a shame re dues; it seems paid membership has been dropping every
 -> year recently. My notice still says $30, tho last year i kicked 10
 -> extra and was wondering whether to make it 20 more this year.

         The problem is that FIG is starving in the midst of plenty.
 I don't even want to *tell* you how much I get paid per FORTH article
 in "Embedded Systems Programming" magazine. ESP practically has to
 CHASE AWAY advertisers, their pages are so full of ads.

         HOW COME FIG CAN'T MAKE MONEY?

         HOW COME THEY HAVE LOST MOST OF THEIR ADVERTISERS?

         The answer is, as I have found over the years, they don't know
 what the hell they are doing running a magazine. Marlin *produces* a
 pretty nice magazine single handed, but that is where it ends. There
 is no marketing to speak of; marketing approaches to potential
 advertisers by FIG are amateurish: I know because we at VESTA receive
 every such advance. It is to weep.

 -> Come on you all; if you have dropped off how about signing up again?
 -> Or is the general consensus that if FIG does not serve a useful
 -> purpose to a wide audience let it die a dignified natural death ?

         The FIG ideal serves a purpose; the national/international
 organization serves its purpose poorly. The Board needs to resign
 and be replaced, now more than ever.

                 =jax=

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