I *did* joine ISOC!!! Was: Re: Why I didn't join ISoc

"Karl Auerbach, Empirical Tools and Technologies, 408/427-5280" <karl@empirical.com> Tue, 10 November 1992 22:48 UTC

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 > From bill.simpson%um.cc.umich.edu%angband.stanford.edu@CNRI.Reston.VA.US  Tue Nov 10 14:13:00 1992

 > The question remains.  Do we want to be a part of an organization which
 > thinks it *owns* us, but explicitly didn't want us involved in its
 > formation?

I have never felt that I was not invited to participate in ISOC or
its policies.

Of course, I joined ISOC with a constructive attitude which allows me
to live with the initial choices of its founders in the anticipation
of a subsequent opening of participation in policy making.

			--karl--