Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!cbosgd!ucbvax!AC.UK!CHAA006%UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB From: CHAA006%UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB@AC.UK Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: DECUS Message-ID: <8607101418.AA18322@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 10-Jul-86 10:18:58 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8607101418.AA18322 Posted: Thu Jul 10 10:18:58 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jul-86 00:32:05 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 26 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa Hi, Bob ... it's good to know that somewhere out there exists a DECUS director who's interested in what's wrong with DECUS. Here's my ideas :- >>> 1. What should be the important points in a DECUS Commercialism Policy? >>> What should or should not be permitted in the Newsletters, at Symposia or in >>> the Exhibit Area? There is a real need, I think, for simple, understandable >>> rules - before we become a trade arena rather than a technical forum. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with commercialism; we all live in the real world, and need to know what's available, who's selling it, and how much it costs. All that is required is that commercial aspects should be subsidiary to technical issues. Stop censoring prices in SIG newsletters. Stop censoring prices, period. >>> 2. Why is Symposia attendance declining? Or, why are half the attendees >>> at each Symposium "first timers"? Why don't you come more often? Because DECUS symposia, like DECUS tapes are TOO DAMNED EXPENSIVE. The only DECUS tapes I've ever been able to afford are the symposia tapes which are redistributed at very reasonable cost within the UK. Real DECUS library tapes are out of my league. DECUS symposia are out of my league. I can just about justify local SIG meetings, and only then when there are items on the agenda which are vital. Philip Taylor (RHBNC; Univ. of London) (via Bitnet)