18th April 2006, 02:56 PM
From Troll:
What nationally owned public resource? Its not nationally owned or public.
In what way do they deny you an opinion? All they do is allow their own members to decide their own policies. You obviously have strong opinions, and no-one stops you from expressing them publicly.
1man1desk
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Quote:quote:Why should the IFA and its members be interested in subsidising non-members? Simply because the IFA write standards about a nationally owned public resource.It`s bad enough that they are answerable to no-one but themselves-the icing on the cake comes when they are successful in denying the majority of heritage professionals an opinion.Sure, the IFA writes standards. They only impose them on their members, though. If others (curators, for instance) choose to adopt them and impose them in a wider way, that is simply an endorsement of the quality of what the IFA have done and a free benefit to the rest of the archaeological community.
What nationally owned public resource? Its not nationally owned or public.
In what way do they deny you an opinion? All they do is allow their own members to decide their own policies. You obviously have strong opinions, and no-one stops you from expressing them publicly.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished