• To: 'Betty Harvey' <harvey@e...>
• Subject: RE: XML User Groups - Any Survivors? Time To Move On?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 12:16:47 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

In pursuit of the perception of wisdom and power these days, nothing quite
equals standards and speeches.
If we stop laughing at professional knowledge and privilege, we give up the
reasons our ancestors came to 
this continent except for tobacco and cheap rum.

len

"An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can
make people laugh." - Will Rogers

From: Betty Harvey [mailto:harvey@e...]

I hate to burst your bubble about beltway bandits Len (sure we have them
in droves here and some of them are interested in XML and driving the
direction of the Government) but I think saying that our group is just
Beltway bandits denegrates the achievement of the individuals and 
organizations that make up our users group.  They are some of the 
most professional and knowledgeable people I have had the priviledge
of dealing with. 

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