(i'm NOT blasting tony -- really....)

Tony Furnivall wrote:

> One aspect of working with the MPE FOrum that we have been adamant about is
> that we don't work under public scrutiny

how very interex-ish of this group!  the bod also likes doing things with no (or
too little to late) public scrutiny.  for heaven sakes, this is a major reason why
there's such a blow-up right now.

> we do our best to identify things that will have
> significant value over a period of years or more.  Shorter term efforts are
> the province of the SIGs, and are the things that they do well.  We have
> adopted the strategic area.

'big brother' is deciding what's best for the mpe community under a veil of
secrecy?

> Our major dependency is on funding, and at present that is working
> out very well with Interex. I'm certain that if either Interex or the MPE
> Forum felt a need to sever that relationship, that we would approach that
> with all due and appropriate diligence.

funding?  funding?  take away my 'funding' (as a sig) and what have i got?  hmmm,
so i need to make my own copies and pay my own way to a conference?  that's not
such a big deal when you consider how important i regard my sig's responsibility
to this community.

> 2.  We are frequently going to be the target of charges and challenges such
> as those from Ted (and others). To these charges and challenges we will
> generally not choose to respond. We consider No Comment to be anything but a
> non-comment, and as a result prefer to operate quietly and as far behind the
> scenes as our personal tastes for anonymity allow.

strange how i'm not surprised....

i'm profoundly disappointed <sigh>             - d

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