In a message dated 3/13/02 10:16:09 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> This assumes that there will be "advocacy" in the new HP. I'm not convinced
> there will be. One candidate running for the Interex board a few years back
> said that Interex should get out of the advocacy business

Uhhhh.... I thought that the main purpose of user groups was 'advocacy'.
Software vendors have a great deal of control over the direction their
products take.  It's my recollecion that user groups emerged as a means for a
large number of individual users to lobby collectively for certain actions
from the vendor.  Isn't that why user groups are typically vendor-specific???

Wayne Boyer
Cal-Logic (Interex member - but what am I getting for our $180?)

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