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- From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
- Subject: Re: "IBM is listening." How? (was Re: IBM won't accept Internet...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.134928.13254@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:49:28 GMT
- References: <sal8.256.724361194@po.cwru.edu> <95004@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> <1gj7vvINN2sk@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec21.015801.9335@weyrich.UUCP> <1992Dec21.080854.18870@watson.ibm.com> <gershon.724973524@husc.harvard.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis
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- In <gershon.724973524@husc.harvard.edu> gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
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- >dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine) writes:
-
- >>The good news is
- >>that your complaints are getting very direct, unfiltered exposure to
- >>the people who can fix it.
-
- >>David W. Levine -- dwl@watson.ibm.com -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- >> -- My Opinions, IBM's hardware. --
- >>"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
- >>aim" - George Santayana
-
- >I am very glad to hear this. But what exactly do you mean? Do the
- >programmers of OS/2 read this group? If so, why don't we ever hear
- >from them? Even if not them, then someone else. It would be nice
- >once in a while to know what involved people think of all our "OS/2
- >should do this" and "why does/doesn't OS/2 do that?" comments. As I
- >have said here before, it would be encouraging to IBM's sophisticated
- >customers (sophisticated == serious enough about computers in general
- >and OS/2 in particular to read this group or similar groups on CI$) to
- >know that they are listening. Assigning some people to maintain an
- >"official" presence on these groups would be good for customer
- >confidence. (Hiring Mr. Timothy Sipples full time to do this would
- >be a good start... :-)
-
- Everyone internally has read-only access to this and the other OS/2
- newsgroups via a shadowing mechanism that comes through Almaden, CA.
- Unfortunately, not many of those who can read it are also able to reply,
- because it requires SMTP access to the internet. Worse yet, it is
- rather easy to acquire this; the forms are online and all it usually
- requires is their manager's "signature", but many people don't know this.
-
- Cheers,
- Q
- --
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