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- >From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos)
-
- I realize that it's been awhile since I made it all the way to comp.std.unix
- in my list of newsgroups, so if I've missed something that makes this all
- blow back in my face, would someone please correct me?
-
- I registered for UniForum back in January (actually I *was* registered by
- one of our division secretaries, along with everyone else in the division,
- although I never showed up there), and since then have been getting pounds
- of junk mail relating to using Unix in an MIS/DP sort of environment. Well,
- the most recent piece of trash to come my way was an offer for three free
- complimentary issues of a magazine called _Unix_in_the_Office_, apparently
- produced by "Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Group". I'm not really
- interested in anything the magazine has to offer, so I was about to throw
- it out when the word "Standard" in the flyer attracted my eye. I read the
- paragraph and found the following claim:
-
- ".... Posix is a well-supported vendor-independent standard...."
-
- Golly, I thought to myself. Have they sped up the procedure that much?
- It seems like just a few months since I recall it going into the trial use
- period... have I missed the IEEE announcement, and all the discussion
- which must have accompanied it? Or are these people just talking through
- their hats?
-
- There are a number of other claims in the flyer which seem to stretch my
- capacity for belief, so I am assuming that these people are talking through
- their hats. Also, the three free issues seem to turn into a $495 (and no,
- I didn't leave a decimal point out of that number) annual subscription rate
- if you don't cancel fast enough. All in all, this looks like a Fast Buck
- production, and I don't think I'd trust anything I read in it farther than
- I can spit a weasel. But it *has* been awhile since I was following this
- group, so I figured I'd ask before I go shooting my mouth off about how
- these people are talking through their hats...
-
- Can anyone help me out here?
-
-
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-
- [ The above opinions are those of the submittor. Readers, please remember
- that this is a technical newsgroup when responding (i.e., no flames, please).
-
- The Working Group hopes to get the Full Use Standard balloted by this
- fall (1987). For the moment, there is only the Trial Use Standard.
- -mod ]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 2
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