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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 27 Feb 91 03:08:30 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 02-24-91 (10:28)              Number: 1313 of 1313 (Echo)
   To: CHARLIE HITSELBERGER          Refer#: 1276
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: JAX ATTACKS                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 -> Jack, if you don't like what FIG is doing,

       I don't like what FIG is *not* doing!

 -> and you aren't offering anything but flames,

         As Dennis Ruffer and other longtime GEnie readers know,
 from time to time over the past four years I have offered constructive
 suggestions. They have been pretty uniformly ignored. Lately Dennis
 attempted to set up a straw dog for him to knock down in the form
 of a complete program for FIG ... I would have, once again, to have
 access to the sort of information that FIG hides from its members
 (to disguise their incompetence) to formulate a business-like program
 to bring FIG back from well-over-the-brink of disaster.

 -> perhaps you could do better to start your own
 -> group and compete head-to-head against the evil empire of FIG.

         I have never considered that possibility very seriously.
 I consider FIG the "mother church" of Forth fraternal organizations.
 I was asked to run for office in SIG-Forth and declined.

 -> For a
 -> name, I would like to suggest "Belligerent Forth Dudes" (or B.F.D. as
 -> the acronym).  Do a newsletter, an annual convention, define your own
 -> language standard...  I know *I* would join!

         Tell ya what ... if I ever get on the board of FIG, my first
 motion will be to change the name of the organization to "the FORTH
 International" :-)

         =jax=

 NET/Mail : RCFB Golden, CO (303) 278-0364 VESTA & Denver FIG for Forth!
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