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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 4 Mar 91 13:19:11 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 02-26-91 (16:04)              Number: 1345 of 1349
   To: CHARLIE HITSELBERGER          Refer#: 1276
 From: STEVE PALINCSAR                 Read: NO
 Subj: JAX ATTACKS                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 Don't be too hard on Jax for his comments RE FIG.  There's some pretty
 nasty history there.  Perhaps you missed all the fun on Forthnet a year
 or two ago when Jax was a Fig official, and was unceremoniously fired
 without any explanation, hearing, whatever.

 My recollection of the affair *AS IT MADE FORTHNET* is quite different
 from what DaR is saying now.  At the time, nobody knew why Jax was
 fired; Fig never bothered to say.  In fact, they flat refused to say, as
 I remember it.  This "fig's finances are fucked" message on Genie
 business they're talking about now is the first time I ever heard of it,
 and I was folowing the exchange back when fairly closely.  In plain
 fact, regardless of the excuses given now, Jax was fired simply because
 he criticized FIG.

 Note, too, that this is the same FIG that has *YET* to issue to its
 members the "full financial disclosure" that I asked for over two, maybe
 even over three, years ago.  The one I asked for after the question of
 FIG remuneration from GENIE being secret, that they couldn't reveal it
 to members because of their contract with GE, came up.  After waiting
 for over a year for an answer, I finally gave up and failed to renew.

 Jax has many reasons to be bitter, and I think we all have many reasons
 to be pretty discouraged about the organization.

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