<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Veni,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The world is full of proud fathers (I for one) who have used
their good judgment differently in deciding what is "a normal thing",
cultural differences notwithstanding.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Erkki I. Kolehmainen<BR>Tilkankatu 12 A 3, 00300 Helsinki, Finland<BR>(09)
4368 2643, 0400 825 943; Int'l: +358 - 9 4368 2643 / 400 825 943</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Alkuperäinen viesti ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>Lähettäjä:</B>
<A title=veni@veni.com href="mailto:veni@veni.com">Veni Markovski</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Vastaanottaja:</B> <A title=eik@iki.fi
href="mailto:eik@iki.fi">Erkki I. Kolehmainen</A> ; <A title=veni@veni.com
href="mailto:veni@veni.com">Veni Markovski</A> ; <A title=vb@bertola.eu.org
href="mailto:vb@bertola.eu.org">Vittorio Bertola</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Kopio:</B> <A
title=chapter-delegates@lists.isoc.org
href="mailto:chapter-delegates@lists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@lists.isoc.org</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Lähetetty:</B> 6. toukokuuta 2005 4:10</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Aihe:</B> Re: [chapter-delegates] Position of
ISOC Italy on Veni Markovski's petition</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 23:07 05-05-05 +0300, Erkki I. Kolehmainen
wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=2>I started to wonder,
when you years ago boasted of having inflated the membership roll by having
made all your small children members of your Chapter and ISOC. That would
not be legal in Finland (for a normal registered association) - I don't know
about Bulgaria or elsewhere. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Oh, and by the way,
their membership was not because we needed to have the 25 members;) We were
approved as a chapter long time before that. <BR>And by the time Philip was
born, anyone could have become member of ISOC (note - of ISOC, not of ISOC
Bulgaria - they can not be members of ISOC Bulgaria, as in Finland), so I
guess the normal thing for a proud Father was this. <BR><BR>What can I say -
cross cultural differences. That's why ISOC was good at these times!
<BR><BR>best,<BR>veni </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>