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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECUS deserves some credit!
Message-ID: <125rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 16 May 88 18:06:03 GMT
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In addition to this posting, I received one other message about the inacuracies
of my previous posting questioning the value of a local DEC user's group's
being an official DECUS LUG.  I think the private message I received hit
the nail on the head when it said something like "I think you must have
been out of the DECUS organization for a couple of years--it has changed
quite a bit in the past couple of years."  It has been about two years since
I have been involved.  I am glad to hear that things are much better than
they were and that the association of the LUG with the national organization
is now (according to all reports I have received) worth the trouble.  If
anyone else has any more positive or negative experiences (they should probably
be more recent than my experiences to be of any value) to report, I, for one,
would enjoy hearing more about the advantages of the association between the
national organization and the LUG, as only one message I have seen has done
a good job of showing.  I was careful to state in my previous posting that
I didn't question the value of individual membership in the national
organization or individual membership and active participation in the LUG.

I do appreciate the responses received, and I'm sorry if I gave an outdated
picture of the association between the national organization and the LUG.
I'm glad that there were thoughtful responses to my posting.

Is it really true that DEC provides no financial support to the national
organization other than membership dues for employees?  That would mean
that all the DECUS mail I receive is funded by either the national organization
symposium entrance fees or by tape production charges.  Since I can't identify
where I first heard that--I thought it was just "common knowledge"--I may have
been wrong there as well.  I apologize for any misrepresentation I may have
given.  Keep up the good work in DECUS.

                                        AMMON::RAY