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One thing to consider about this thread: most of the people who are putting down the STC are non-members. Most of those who have identified themselves as being members have also been supportive of the organization. If you were a national officer of STC and had to decide between making the members happy or making non-members happy, which would you choose?
I'm not denying anybody perceptions of problems in the organization (though I do think that some of "problems" amount to a difference in peoples' vision of STC's role), but what I am saying is that attacking it from the outside is a lot less likely to cause any significant change than working from the inside to improve it would.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stockman [mailto:mstockman -at- mac -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:38 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: STC blackmail? (Was: Humor... sort of)
It seems to me that if a non-trivial number of people in the STC's target
audience have criticism of the organization and its conference, it's
reasonable to express their comments in a reasonable place (for example,
a tech. writing forum).
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