I would be way ahead to drop the membership and join AWC/ACI/etc. With
those organizations I would get useful information that applies to work.
Ii would lose the SEI, but I'm not sure if that is something to worry about.
Jnapd@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/31/2007 2:21:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> gmse4603@gmail.com writes:
>
> I received the same certificate from ASCE yesterday.
>
> It was a a true honor. I framed it and placed it next to my
> nightstand. The picture of the kids will now go elsewhere.
>
> -g
>
> On 10/31/07, *Dennis Wish* <dennis.wish@verizon.net
> <mailto:dennis.wish@verizon.net>> wrote:
>
> My wife opened the mail today and left a certificate for ASCE
> on my desk that stated "ASCE (American Society of Civil
> Engineers) By Action of the Board of Direction (or should this
> be Director's) MY NAME has been 'elected' Affiliate Member……"
>
> I haven't been a member of ASCE for over 21 years and could
> not understand why they would have "elected" me an affiliate
> member until I read the application that I was to send in. The
> attached letter gave me all the benefits of being an ASCE
> member and even offered the rest of 2007 (60 days) added to
> all of 2008 as part of my Affiliate Membership.
>
> Now excuse me for being upset about this, but when reading the
> application to send in it appears that my election to be a
> member is based on send a payment of $205.00 with the
> application.
>
> Since when has ASCE resorted to the same type of trick junk
> mail that one might expect from Reader's Digest or any number
> of Spam messages I receive by e-mail? In my opinion, this
> belittles a professional organization that, while I chose not
> to join, still maintained a sense of professionalism that was
> honest and direct in their attempts to build their membership.
> This is an advertising ploy that I believe is beneath a
> professional association.
>
> I'm not sure how many of you received this advertisement, but
> this falls into the same disingenuous spam that I receive on a
> daily basis including a new one that I received just yesterday
> which is a twist on the old African money laundering scheme
> that attempts to get your bank information. For those that
> have not seen this one yet it was sent with the following message:
>
>
>
> "Good day,
>
>
>
> Mine was only $185.00 I should have saved it and put it next to my
> ICBO member certificate.
>
> Joe Venuti
> Johnson & Nielsen Associates
> Palm Springs, CA
>
>
>
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