🚀 go-pugleaf

I was trying to respond to this a few days ago but my news reader
balked.  Is there a message in that ;-)?

In a previous article, dsroberts@beckman.com wrote:
>On a conference on DCS and DECUServe, a DECUS leader has begun a topic
>discussing charging a fee for membership in DECUS.  It sounds like a proposal
>is gelling to have two types of member, a "full" and an "associate", where the
>"full" gets things like DECUScope, can vote, etc. and pays the membership fee,
>while an "associate" only gets notification of symposium and other such revenue
>generating DECUS products.  This appears to be a cost-cutting proposal (and
>tree saving), as it seems to be expensive to mail EVERYTHING to all 50,000 US
>members but only have a small percentage actually care.
> 
>Anyone care to comment on this?

I'm afraid that I'd loose my 15+ years of association with Decus.  I have not
been all that active - but I have attended two symposia, participate in the
symposium tape distribution in my LUG, was an active participant in the
PAGESWAPPER for a while and _enjoy_ the benefits of membership.

I don't think, however, that I could get my employer to pay fees for this
membership.  I can't, as yet, even get on DECUSERVE.  Please be careful before
a number like me are forced off the rolls.

Gerson Cohen, NIH
ghc@vger.niddk.nih.gov