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>I am getting very concerned about what I have been reading on this
>newsgroup concerning the SUG election and other matters with SUG.
>SUG may have a two year requirement to be on the board but as far
>as I can discern it has NO way to determine if someone in the past
>has been a member or not.

Yes we do, we double-check against the original paper membership app
you sent us which is saved and filed for these purposes.

I agree there have been serious problems with membership database
management in the past two years regarding every day routines and
we're trying to fix that, primarily through recent staff changes.

But for the purposes of elections we can stop and do careful hand
checks, which we did (I can say that with certainty because *I* did
them.)

>The other pressing concern is the question asked by someone on a topic
>totally unrelated to the board elections. Why become a SUG member?

1. Because of the direct benefits such as discount on the conference,
with vendors (book, software, etc), discounts on our CD/ROMs, etc. We
post those benefits here periodically.

2. For the indirect benefits, SUG is only as influential as the
members it represents. The more members, the more Sun is interested in
what we have to say and do. This is one of those things like voting,
what influence does your personal vote have? Not much. What influence
do a lot of individual votes have together? All the influence in the
world.

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        -Barry Shein

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