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document.writeln("AOP Advocate for Sysop Interests")
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document.writeln("By Dave McClure, Executive Director, AOP")
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document.writeln("What does it take to be a professional in today's ever-changing, rapidly")
document.writeln("expanding online industry?  Increasingly, it takes immediate access to")
document.writeln("reliable information, resources and services.")
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document.writeln("The Association of Online Professionals was created to provide these")
document.writeln("services to the individuals who plan, manage and maintain online")
document.writeln("services.  Whether you operate an online system, provide Internet")
document.writeln("access, or sell products and services to or through system operators,")
document.writeln("AOP is  your professional association.")
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document.writeln("Already, we've established a strong record of performance on behalf of")
document.writeln("our members.   We're  monitoring legislation  at the federal and local")
document.writeln("levels, providing timely alerts of legislation that may affect online")
document.writeln("systems.  We're working with the attorneys that represent sysops facing")
document.writeln("charges for online activities.  We're promoting our industry to the")
document.writeln("media, working to achieve a more balanced and accurate image of our")
document.writeln("industry.  We're providing professionals with the information and news")
document.writeln("they need to grow professionally and to prosper.")
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document.writeln("And we're delivering the best set of benefits ever offered to online")
document.writeln("professionals. We're also developing business, health and other")
document.writeln("insurance programs, low cost Internet access, books and other")
document.writeln("publications, and more.")
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document.writeln("These benefits -- plus our monthly newletter, the AOP Code of")
document.writeln("Professional Standards, interaction with other professionals and more --")
document.writeln("can be yours at the low rate of just $95 for one full year of")
document.writeln("membership.")
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document.writeln("How can AOP provide this level of benefits and services?")
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document.writeln("Through a very simple idea: that professionals working together can do")
document.writeln("more than individuals working alone.")
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document.writeln("AOP was created by leading members of our industry to support the")
document.writeln("individuals, online systems and companies that comprise that industry.")
document.writeln("The association is already supported by people you know and respect --")
document.writeln("from Sysops of BBS systems and major online services to web sites on the")
document.writeln("Internet.  And by such leading companies as Hayes Microcomputer")
document.writeln("Products, USRobotics, Rockwell International, Mustang Software,")
document.writeln("Galacticom, Concentric Corporation, Prodigy, eSoft, Boardwatch Magazine")
document.writeln("and Clark Development.")
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document.writeln("Together, we are building an industry where professionals can practice")
document.writeln("their craft without undue interference.  An industry with room for")
document.writeln("individuals and systems to grow and prosper.")
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document.writeln("If there was ever a time for professionals to stand up and be counted,")
document.writeln("that time is now.  And AOP will continue to work to make membership the")
document.writeln("single best investment you can make in your company or system this year.")
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document.writeln("To become a member of AOP, call the AOP BBS at (703) 264-1750, telnet to")
document.writeln("aop.org or connect to our AOP Web Site.  Or join today with your check")
document.writeln("or credit card by calling our membership department at (703) 924-9692.")
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document.writeln("Join with professionals who will help to shape the future of our")
document.writeln("industry.  Join the Association of Online Professionals.")
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