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From: sshankar@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Subash Shankar)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: IEEE Computer Society membership drive
Keywords: Why you?
Message-ID: <12703@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 8 May 89 18:06:19 GMT
References: <3303@ag.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: sshankar@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Subash Shankar)
Organization: CSci Dept., University of Minnesota, Mpls.
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In article <3303@ag.sei.cmu.edu> mrb@sei.cmu.edu (Mario Barbacci) writes:

>We do cross reference the membership lists!!  Before we do a mailing we do
>what's called a "merge/purge" that is intended to prevent exactly what Eric
>is talking about.  I am not sure why his name fell through the cracks!  We

>[discussion about possible reasons for falling through the cracks]

I too have the same problem, with redundant mailings.
And I have the same spelling and address on all my technical society
memberships (both IEEE and ACM).
So, I suspect that there is another reason for falling through the cracks,
in my case at least