QUOTE ABOUT NUG
Marshall Cohen in Radio Interferometry: The Saga and the Science (NRAO 1998)
“I think that the NUG and the Network were rather special. We were a self-appointed, self-organized, self-refereeing group. We were not chartered by NSF or by any observatory. Our reason for existence was to make VLBI easier and better. There are other organizations, like the Divisions of the American Astronomical Society, with a similar role but we had no legal status, no corporate home, no memorandum of understanding, no budget, and not even any bylaws. Remarkably enough, we did have some influence and it was a lot of fun.”