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- From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
- Subject: Re: EXECUTION of DECUS Standards
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.000442.4685@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 05:04:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec2.143046.1@mscf.med.upenn.edu> <lhupaoINN978@lisboa.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Dec16.075630@mccall.com>
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- In article <1992Dec16.075630@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:
- > Maybe. But what they were doing is informing the membership of a decision that
- > they felt the membership would disagree with. Whatever their motives, it is true
- > that a) the membership wouldn't have heard about this till much later if those
- > people hadn't spoken outside of official channels, and b) at least some of the
- > membership thinks it was an utterly stupid decision and would very much like it
- > reversed.
- >
- > Note that the reorg flap happened the same way. Without postings here from
- > leadership people explaining what the change really meant, many people would
- > probably have gone along simply because the board recommended it. And given that
- > dissenting opinions were given much less space in the official ballot than the
- > proponents, it was the only way most of us would have heard about the whole
- > thing.
-
- Ouch! That one hit home...
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