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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

217.0. "DECWORLD we don't read you !" by BRSSWS::PIGEON (raymond pigeon) Fri Nov 14 1986 12:35

    We are trying to get back on the DECWORLD distribution list.
    
    The distribution has stopped more than seven years ago here in
    Brussels. I do not know about other european countries.
    
    Since a few month we are trying to know what has happened but
    we had no success.
    
    Can anyone provide us with a pointer to the right person ?
    
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217.1Write or CallBCSE::KREFETZFri Nov 14 1986 13:062
    On page 212 of the US digital Telephone Directory, DECWORLD is listed
    as being at mailstop CFO2-3/K23 with a DTN of 251-1016.
217.2DECworld becomes DECusSKYLAB::FISHERBurns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO1-1/D42Fri Nov 14 1986 20:198
    On the cover of my latest DECworld, it said something like
    "The Newsletter for US Digital Employees".  Perhaps they changed
    to a regional focus back when your distribution stopped?  Perhaps
    there is supposed to be a European version?  (A bit ironic, the
    name decWORLD which only goes the the US).
    
    Burns
    
217.3"world" depends on your vantage point :-)CASEE::CLARKWard ClarkSun Nov 16 1986 21:334
    You have to realize that the English word "world" is different from
    the American word "world", as in "World Series".
    
    -- Ward
217.4"around the world"WHO::ENGHOLMLarry EngholmMon Nov 17 1986 02:098
    The little info box on page two of my October 1986 DECWORLD says:
    
    	DECWORLD is published by Digital Equipment Corporation for
    	its employees around the world.
    
    Also, the bottom right corner of the cover has a diagonal stripe
    saying "U.S. SECTION".  Between pages 4 and 5 (in the center) are
    pages A through D, which is the U.S. section.
217.5COVERT::COVERTJohn CovertMon Nov 17 1986 15:506
>    You have to realize that the English word "world" is different from
>    the American word "world", as in "World Series".

And the English word "world" as in "World Cup," too, I suppose?

/john_fighting_that_blinders_on_America_bashing_from_our_European_friends
217.6maybe DECworld should have a sports pageHOMBRE::CONLIFFENoreascon 3Mon Nov 17 1986 18:3612
|And the English word "world" as in "World Cup," too, I suppose?

Well, as near as I remember from the last time I watched the "World Cup",
(in the late 1960s), there were teams from Europe, South America and
parts of Africa. There may even have been a Russian team. Certainly, the
"Cup" is open to any country that wants to put up a soccer team, I think.

That compares to the baseball "World Series", which is open to the winners
of the American League and the National League. How would a Japanese or Russian
baseball team go about signing up for the baseball World Series??

	Nigel :-)
217.7RDGENG::LESLIEAndy `{o}^{o}' Leslie, ECSSE, OSI.Mon Nov 17 1986 20:597
    The American national soccer team were in the world cup. They
    failed to qualify for the finals tho'.
    
    C'mon, John, don't try and defend US insularity, especially
    in the misuse of words like "world" for  "USA".
    
    See you in the 'box.
217.8Who are we talking about, anyway?HUMAN::CONKLINPeter ConklinTue Nov 18 1986 01:587
    "American"? You mean pertaining to the Americas?
    
    Maybe you should have said USA? As in Union of South Africa?
    
    
    The only solution is to use the ISO code for the country in question.
    It is cultural and language independent and unambiguous.
217.9RDGENG::LESLIEAndy `{o}^{o}' Leslie, ECSSE, OSI.Tue Nov 18 1986 06:537
    
    The "American" I referred to was a United States of America national
    soccer team called "Team America".
    
    Which was why I referred to it as the American team.
    
    I now declare this mouth closed.
217.10>- [sigh] -<INK::KALLISSupport Hallowe'enTue Nov 18 1986 13:5613
    Before this turns into a rathole, a thought:
    
    There are several meanings to the word "world."
    
    It can mean Tellus, 3rd planet from the Sun.
    It can mean "perspective," as "the world of stamp collecting."
    It can mean "coverage," as "the world of [company]'s products."
    
    As was once pointed out _The Saturday Evening Post_ isn't delivered
    on Saturday evening, and it isn't a thick piece of wood upon which
    fences are constructed. :-)
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
217.11MMMMH!BRSDVP::GALLOYGreen_ValleyWed Nov 19 1986 12:5410
    All this discussion does not help me to understand how most of the
    DEC employees in Belgium do not receive DECWORLD any more and others
    still do ! (including recently engaged people)
    
    Where is the distribution list located, and who could suddenly decide
    to modify that list without notifying the  interresred persons ?
    
    
    			Andre
    
217.12RDGENG::LESLIEAndy `{o}^{o}' Leslie, ECSSE, OSI.Wed Nov 19 1986 20:0510
    
    We still get DECworld in the UK, at least I got a copy before I
    moved offices in September.
    
    I imagine that I got on the mailing list via Personnall, so you
    might ask your Personnell if they should be notifying corporate
    HQ of your needs.
    
    I suggest someone who has a copy of DECworld to hand put in any
    info on who the editor is and what organisation produces it.
217.13DECWORLD ContactsBETHEL::THOMPSONNoter of the LoST ARKMon Nov 24 1986 11:3616
        The offices of DECWORLD are at:

                Corporate Employee Communications
                150 Coulter Drive
                CFO2-3/K23
                Concord, MA, 01742

        The masthead lists:

        Editorial Manager/Richard Seltzer   DTN 251-1305 CELICA::SELTZER
        Editor/Mark Fredrickson             DTN 251-1016 CELICA::FREDRICKSON
        Contributing writer/Kate Nelson     DTN 251-1307 CELICA::KNELSON

        Network addresses and DTN phone numbers are from ELF.

                        Alfred
217.14BRSSWS::PIGEONraymond pigeonTue Nov 25 1986 11:523
    rep .-1
    
    Thanks you... it is all we wanted to know.