"John Clogg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:a6nt5101q8e@enews2.newsguy.com...
> What I find most irritating about this story is the Compaq user group
> president saying that HP3000 users are a vocal minority and that the
> majority of members are "probably in the majority."

No, what he said was that Interex members supporting the merger were "probably
in the majority."

>  It seems he has missed
> the point of the complaints as completely as the Interex board has.  Whether
> a majority of members is in favor of the merger is immaterial.  The problem
> is that the board presumes to speak for its members without first soliciting
> their opinions.  The point is that they really don't know what the
> membership's opinions are.  Geez, how dense can some people be?

They were elected as representatives of the membership. They speak for the
members all the time without soliciting their opinions.

And, how are you so certain they don't know what membership's opinions are?

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Greg Cagle
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