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From: jsaker@zeus.unomaha.edu (Jamie Saker -- Vice President, UNO ACE)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: It's the ACM Role Playing Game!
Message-ID: <15450.28425cce@zeus.unomaha.edu>
Date: 28 May 91 19:36:14 GMT
References: <1991May27.010251.6255@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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Welcome to the ACM Member Role Playing Game, where you are given a 
real-life situation and get to decide the outcome!  Pull up a chair and read
on! No extra parts/batteries/900 numbers/etc. are required!
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Situation: You're a Joe C. Student, a MIS major and nice guy. You joined
ACM about a year ago and received all but one of your Communications of
the ACM magazines, which are neatly lining the shelf above your computer.
You also joined Computing Surveys and SIGCAS, thinking they might be
interesting SIGs.

During the course of the year, you got most of your Communications, but when
it came to the SIGs, Computing Surveys only sent you their March 1991 
issue (Vol. 23), and SIGCAS...  well, maybe they had a nice dinner for
the execs, or maybe they all went to Disneyland. You'll never know, because
they never sent you anything!!!

You just received a notice in the mail, reading:

	YOUR NOMINAL DUES INCREASE IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO INFLATIONARY
	FACTORS. CORPORATE MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PUBLIC TV'S
	"THE INFORMATION AGE" ARE WELCOME. THANK YOU.

	DUES INCLUDING COMMUNICATIONS:		$22.00
	103 COMP SURVEYS			$10.00
	007 SIGCAS				$ 6.00

	SUBTOTAL				$38.00
	CONTRIBUTION				$ 5.00
	TOTAL AMOUNT WITH CONTRIBUTION ->	$43.00


Decision: What will you do?  Will you send the check in for the full
amount? Or will you scratch out the contribution? What about the 
SIGs that never did anything? Or will you say "This organization is
a disaster. I'll join ASM or something that does more than bill its
members, and since it thinks it's so darn good, it figures in a tip
as well."

The decision is yours...

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I'll keep a tally of those responding/following up - yes, your vote 
counts!!! Heck, it'll certainly be more fun than SIGCAS was:-)

(Personally, I think it's like receiving horrible service at a resturaunt,
where the breadsticks came cold and hard, and instead of a full basket of
them, you got just one. And the wine you ordered never came, but showed
up on the bill. And then, the waiter figures in his tip of 13% and hands
you the bill. But then, that's just IMHO).

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Jamie Saker				    jsaker@zeus.unomaha.edu (Internet).
Vice President 			    	 	jsaker@unoma1 (BITNET). 
Director, Information Services						      .
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CBA 503, UNO		"No Red Beads until further notice. Failure	      .
Omaha, NE  68182	to comply will result in immediate termination."      .
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