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- From: davel@ampex.com (Dave Larkins)
- Subject: Re: Ford kicked my ass in court
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.192304.6459@ampex.com>
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- Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
- References: <PHILG.92Nov18112615@zug.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov18.220428.1174@ampex.com> <2182@shaman.wv.tek.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:23:04 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <2182@shaman.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
- >When you write a letter of complaint to a big corporate entity, you're
- >a lot more likely to get an answer, and maybe some real action, if you
- >keep it short. Don't tell your life story, don't berate the BCE for
- >not living up to their ads, don't use lots of flowery adjectives.
- >Spend one short paragraph describing the problem, one short paragraph
- >telling what remedy you want (just one remedy, don't give them multiple
- >choices), and send it off. The BCE flunky that has to read these
- >things wants to get the gist of your message in thirty seconds. If it
- >takes much longer than that, your letter will get shuffled to the
- >bottom of a tall pile of similar letters.
- >
- >This note was 13,000 words long -- four pages in 10-point type. It may
- >be awhile before anybody at Ford reads it.
- >
- >(If you're writing a letter for the record before you go to court, that
- >of course is another matter.)
- >
- > -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- > (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
-
- Errumm... Ever heard about that human affliction called 'humor'? I was trying
- to express my disgust with sarcasm rather than expletives, and I would rather
- think that it at least upset someone in the Ford empire. Also I had the
- feeling that as it was also directed at the media, there may be more chance
- of attention.
-
- As for your first point, I flat don't agree, it is my belief that Ford manufactures
- products with a normal distribution around _shit_ and _not_shit_ and biases
- their data samplings towards _not_shit_ by dumping any and all negative input.
-
- ciao davel
-
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