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From: mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie' McMahon)
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Subject: Re: DECUS Board of Directors Election
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Date: 4 Mar 91 19:35:16 GMT
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In article <2330@ghost.stsci.edu>, bowles@stsci.EDU (Richard Bowles) writes:
#mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie' McMahon) writes:

#
#O.K, so what is your opinion?  TGV was certainly well represented in
#Las Vegas and their sessions were a pleasant break from the sales
#hype -- but some (myself *NOT* included) could argue that those 
#sessions represented the "edge" of the bylaws regarding third-party 
#products and commercialism.

Well, I guess my first comment is that many of the sessions we give are
standard technical talks.  They are intended to be information sharing... 
like any other DECUS talk.

Obviously, our update session does cover our product.  I think it follows the
same format that anyone else (DEC, Other Third Parties, Etc.) has used at
DECUS.  We don't say prices, we try to keep the talk to features and futures,
and we try to answer user questions.  We are conscience of the rules, and we do
our best to stick to them.

The group who does DECUS scheduling ultimately decides what is appropriate and
what is not at any given symposium.  As long as that entity is unbiased (which
I think it is) I think DECUS will do fine.

One note is that we won't be giving an update session at Atlanta.  We submitted
it, but I have gotten the impression that all update sessions were dropped due
to lack of hours.  That seems reasonable to me.

As for the election...  Well, I am still gathering opinions on who I am going
to vote for.  I have read the ballot carefully, I read the ADL report which has
generated a fair amount of the controversy, I've seen the comments posted to
the network (most notably Killeen's and Everhart's), and I have spoken to a few
folks to get their opinions.  After all that, I'm looking for more input, hense
my original posting on the subject.

Somehow, I suspect I'm not the only one.

Cheers,
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