27 Oct
2000
27 Oct
'00
8:23 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:28:43PM -0500, Bob Brown
wrote:
Actually I've not renewed my free membership and it lapesed about a year
ago. I'm still able to use my membership number for stuff though.
I know someone that has been waiting on thier membership for a while now and
they just finally got it a couple days ago. Not sure how long he'd been
waiting though.
I've been waiting weeks and weeks to get a
decus membership #...are they
still functional? (Since I can't order a cd without a membership #..and
membership is free, but takes a LONG time....sigh..what a way to run a
railroad).
-Bob
Wow, that's not cool. The last time I renewed my DECUS membership they
were very very fast. Oh my. I just went to the DECUS website to find
"Encompass -- A Compaq
Users Group". I don't read everything DECUS sends me, but I have no
idea how I could have missed this.
I'd say give them another try, they may have lost your application in
the shuffle to rebrand themselves for their new corporate Uber-Being.
Go to http://www.decus.org/encompass/Membership/member-info.shtml
and apply again, you should have a membership number in a few days.
I hope.
Yeah, DECUS was about to cease to exist for some reason unless they reformed
themselves as a new organization. They had a vote of the members and the
reorg was denied. The board then called an emergency meeting and used some
loophole to do this without the memberships permission. There has been a
lot on USENET about this in recent months, the actual change occured a few
weeks ago.
Zane