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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:01:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.180158.23411@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis
- References: <1gj7vvINN2sk@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec21.015801.9335@weyrich.UUCP> <1992Dec21.080854.18870@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.080854.18870@watson.ibm.com> dwl@watson.ibm.com writes:
- >Maybe this will help a little. John Soyring (Director of Software
- >Development Programs for Personal Software) found out about this and is
- >working to get with the right people and straighten this out.
-
- Hurrah! Let us encourage all outbreaks of sanity at IBM. I know from
- personal experience that large companies act crazy because of decisions
- taken by individual managers for reasons which appear to be in their
- own best interest, but without reference to the company's best interest.
-
- For instance, perhaps a manager perceived the Compuserve surcharges for
- receiving mail from the Internet to be an avoidable expense. Of course,
- they are: just provide an Internet address -- a minor problem since
- IBM is already on the net. However, our hypothetical manager may have
- deluded himself -- been misinformed -- that the Internet could be
- ignored and simply tried to cut it off.
-
- David makes a similar point about large companies in his second paragraph:
-
- >For what it's worth, IBM's still not exactly small, and sometimes the
- >left and right hand don't always talk to each other. The good news is
- >that your complaints are getting very direct, unfiltered exposure to
- >the people who can fix it.
-
- Of course, if John Soyring tells us to get lost, then all together now...
- "John you scumbag..." :-) :-) :-).
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-