Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shouldn't ANSI have provided nonvolatile instead of volatile?
Message-ID: <1990Feb18.004846.25829@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> <34067@news.Think.COM>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 90 00:48:46 GMT

In article <34067@news.Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>>... 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 ...  Is this what you mean by "really have a voice"?

Among other things; there is also the issue that being on hand to argue
the merits of your idea is usually better than having to respond to
criticisms after the fact by mail.
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