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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 18 Feb 91 02:00:07 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 2
Message 89        Fri Feb 15, 1991
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 23:36 CST
 
 DR> Seriously though, unless someone is serious about taking over for 
 DR> Matt I would hesitate making any change at all.  An address in the 
 DR> chapters listing, even a bad one, indicates that there have been 
 DR> enough users in the area to support a chapter.  When that group of 
 DR> users decides to do something about it again, then they will 
 DR> (hopefully) let us know the new information.  In the mean time, 
 DR> the bad address will serve to generate comments (like yours) that 
 DR> may prompt someone in the area to do something about it.
 .
 Isn't diversity of viewpoint wonderful?  You really think it's better  to
have a wrong listing for a local chapter contact person than to have  no
listing at all?  I am flabbergasted (as we say in Texas)!
 .
 Anyway, I was mainly addressing the FIG administrative office with my 
information that possibly Matt Lawrence had not been available for  years and
that it should confirm it one way or the other and if he  wasn't available,
correct the listing.  FIG has the list of members; I  don't.  I was under the
impression that FIG didn't need Jax as a  chapter co-ordinator because that
*function* was being covered by  someone in the FIG office!  If that function
is covered it doesn't seem  unreasonable to me for the office to (1) send a
letter to Matt and if  it isn't answered remove his listing from FD and (2)
write to to one or  two members in Austin to ask if they would serve as a
contact point.   If the 2nd is too much, the 1st is NOT (in my opinion, of
course)!
 .
 Yes, I was joking about what a lousy contact person I'd make, to  discourage
FIG from picking me.  Do you really think I'd be a *worse*  local contact
point than a wrong address would be?  (Maybe I don't want  to hear the answer
to that.)  This is incomprehensible to me.  Don't  pick me, I don't care.
 .
 Here, at a time when FIG is (or should be) complaining about falling 
membership, I thought it would be happy to correct a listing so it  might then
be able to get some new members.
 .
 Jax, if you are reading this, if you were still chapter co-ordinator,  what
would you have done if I'd written to you about the possible  problem with the
Austin listing?
 .
 Board of directors, is this really your position, that you'd all  rather have
an incorrect address for a local contact point than one of  the other three
obvious choices (1. no listing, 2. a FIG member in  Austin, 3. Me.)?
 .
 -- Frank
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