decus lives! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Jan 2001

On Jan 3, 18:01, Adrian Graham wrote:
...
  At least in the UK anyway. The recent flurry of DECUS
complaints on here
 made me wonder what had happened to my own membership - sure enough it
 expired last month so they're wanting another 25 english pounds off me.
 Thing is, is it still worth it to be a member? I haven't been to the
 seminars etc for *years* and don't have a requirement for hobbyist kits or
...
  anything like that...... 
I'm not sure a UK membership entitles you to very much in the way of
hobbyist kits -- our UK branch seems very backward in all respects except
collecting money.  My membership expired years ago and when I was invited
to pay not only the ?25 membership but a similar "joining fee" to rejoin, I
declined -- I was a student at the time and it wasn't affordable.
 Especially since they wanted such high prices for anything from the
software library.
Anyone know just what hobbyist licences/kits are available to UK members?
--
Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
                                                Network Manager
                                                Dept. of Computer Science
                                                University of York