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In <FD1C6C3@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>If the folks at ACM HQ are professional publishers, managers, and bean
>counters there are only two ways to get their attention:

>	a. Get on the board, and let them know their jobs
>	   depend on a good (for your purposes) product.

>	b. Vote with your pocketbooks. Drop your membership
>	   entirely and send the board a note of protest, so
>	   reducing to (a).

	c. Send snail-mail to the Board, telling them something's wrong.
	   Tell them what's wrong, why you think it's wrong, thus hurting
	   the image and substance of the ACM, and what you think might be
	   done to fix it.

	d. Send e-mail and snail-mail to the Editor of CACM.  Who's that?
	   [leaf leaf]  I could almost WALK to see him -- Peter Denning
	   at NASA-Ames.  Say to him what you would have told the Board,
	   who would have talked with him anyway.

The editor and  board MIGHT NOT KNOW there's a storm of protest here.  What,
neither the editor nor the Board live at ACM HQ?  Shame on them for not doing
daily cross-continent commutes. ;-)

	I've not the time (yet) to be active at any level, thus keeping
me from a.  ACM provides other services that I want to keep, and the wound
to the CACM isn't mortal (to my eyes), thus obviating b.  I go with d, then
c if nothing comes of it.

		Joseph Beckenbach
		member ACM since 1989
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