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Subject:Re: Preferring STC Members From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:19:00 PST
At 8:56 PM 3/8/95 -0500, Howard Gold wrote:
>RoseCrowe (_all I wanna do is have some fun_) wrote:
>>>if you are hiring, you don't use STC membership or non-membership
>as the only criteria, but look beyond that to the person.
>C'mon. Except for us TW folk, no one knows the STCexists. Not HR, not the
>enginneers. And they don't care. So, then, what's the great badge of
>honor in paying to belong to an unknown entity?
>--HowardGold howardg -at- savvy -dot- com
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