Re: Happy 10th Birthday IIGS - from all of us!

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

With respect to Steve Wozniak and the inaccurate, uninformed post this 
thread is from by Auri Rahimzadeh concerning the US-A2WUG (not A2-WUG),
as Auri called it, please see the following extract (unedited and word 
for word - email reply from Steve Wozniak) and please be advised that I
never claimed or stated that Steve Wozniak 'Founded or Co-founded 
US-A2WUG.

I clearly stated and posted that Steve Wozniak was and is the Founding 
Good Will Group Ambassador, as per my original request and his reply 
with personal authorization of same - as an Honorary Title and in an 
Honorary Capacity only, as stated in the original post and Invitation to 
all the other Founding & Charter member of US-A2WUG

Additionally, I requested and received (revarified by Steve Wozniak - 
himself), another personal and confidential email reply to me concerning
his consent for the inclusion of his name as 'Founding Good Will Group 
Ambassador' (Honorary Title) of US-A2WUG.  No way - would I ever have 
included Steve Wozniak's name in any manner - without his clear written 
consent and full knowledge to do so.

Noted the portion of Steves original reply to my request as inserted 
below - which I also emailed a copy of to Auri.
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Unedited and original copy, word-for-word comments of email reply 
attached for your proof.....

Date: 24 Jul 1996 15:26:12 -0700
From: "Steve Wozniak" <steve@woz.org>
Subject: Re: Request for your help - Please!
To: "Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>


Sounds like what you're doing is grat and you certainly have my support 
and I'd love to listed as "Founding Good-Will Group Ambassador". You're 
certainly welcome to add links to my site too! I could possibly help in 
some easy ways, for example if you need a web server site we can easily 
provide one. Sometimes equipment also.

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Now allow me to inform everybody on this newsgroup, Steve Wozniak and I
made the arrangements concerning the US-A2WUG ourselves - without any 
inviolvement - what-so-ever from Auri. Steve Wozniak was fully aware of 
everything sent to all US-A2WUG Founding & Charter Members - per the 
original invitation requesting they join from me, per a copy of the 
invitation, emailed to Steve Wozniak from me. Steve Wozniak has never 
instructed me in any manner not to use his name as listed in the 
original post announcing US-A2WUG.

Additionally, on several occasions when Auri (independently emailed me 
on the matter, I informed him of the email reply and authorization from 
Steve Wozniak - as shown above in this post/thread/reply - even sent him 
(Auri) a copy of it last night.
 
I'm having a personal meeting with Steve Wozniak this morning at 10 AM 
(PDT) concerning everything that deals with US-A2WUG and I'll bring all 
of this to his attention then for his decision personally on everything.  

IMHO - Auri has no business getting involved in such matters, his post 
is uncalled for and totally inaccurate in all respects.  I'll advise 
everybody in complete detail, of the results of my meeting this morning 
with Steve Wozniak.  

Auri simply seems to be ignorant of the facts as I've just presented 
them.  Actually, he should be fully aware of it all, as I've made him 
fully aware of it all on many occasions.  Yet, he continues to make 
WAVES, without any cause or logical reasoning for such.

I'm very upset and disappointed with Auri, his lack of comprehension of 
the facts - as I've always been every sence I told him I was removing 
him as Public Relations Coordinator of 1WSW way back in 1993, after an 
inaccurate, unauthorized and inapropriate post he made on Genie - that 
caused a great deal of problems for the 1WSW group then.

The only error I made with the original post announcing US-A2WUG on 
9/15/96, (-not corrected-) was the failure to include another Founding & 
Charter Member in the listing; Lane Roathe.  I'll be reposting the 
original US-A2WUG announcement again - with the inclusion of Lane 
Raothe, right after this post/thread and comments on all these matters! 

Sincerely,
Charles T. Turley
Founder & Group Ambassador
US-A2WUG (Unity Services Apple II Worldwide User Group)