ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS - post #5
Make a note in your diaries for today: it's probably a one-off of historic proportions. I spring to Dick's defence (sorry Dick, I have to use that offensive word "defence" but it has a lower case so the more intelligent will be able to discern a difference between my action and my one time employer).
During my tenure as ATS System Requirements Manager I conducted a number of meetings with industry reps about the decommissioning of DMEA. Mr Smith attended a couple and was most vocal about the policy to be applied in determining the locations where DMEA would or would not be replaced with DMEI so it is unfair to say the decommissioning was his (Dick's) call. There were very clear technical and economic reasons for the decommissioning.
As I remember, it was at one of those meetings that the late Alan Green made his classic comment about hoping that any brain surgeon about to operate on him was "a professional and not some well meaning amateur."
MJG
Can't have Dick blamed for everything, can we?