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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Shouldn't ANSI have provided nonvolatile instead of volatile?
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Date: 17 Feb 90 16:31:16 GMT
References: <1117.18:37:35@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Feb8.162440.22318@utzoo.uucp> <1990Feb13.114041.4178@bath.ac.uk> <17950@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Feb16.172805.24168@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1990Feb16.172805.24168@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <17950@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>>  How do you manage to get onto a commitee like that?
>Basically, you pay a modest fee, and show up for the meetings.
...
>  Having your employer's support helps
>when it comes to the costs of attending meetings, but attendance in fact
>isn't required, although it helps if you want to really have a voice in
>things.

ANSI rules say that you must have attended two of the most recent three
meetings and be up-to-date in dues payments in order to have a vote on a
standards committee (if the vote is taking place *at* a meeting the meeting
in progress counts as one of the two).  Is this what you mean by "really
have a voice"?
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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