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- From: ssh@snow.boulder.ibm.com (Steve Hultquist (347-3994))
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: IBM employee's E-mail address?
- Message-ID: <SSH.93Jan22133710@snow.boulder.ibm.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:37:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.125837.16170@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1240005@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- Sender: news@afsserv.boulder.ibm.com
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- Organization: ISSC Boulder
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- In-Reply-To: white@hpcc01.corp.hp.com's message of 21 Jan 93 22:18:13 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: snow.boulder.ibm.com
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- >>>>> On 21 Jan 93 22:18:13 GMT, white@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Jon White) said:
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- Jon> My experience has been that the IBMer has to have special permission to have
- Jon> Internet access. I would guess that most don't. When I sent queries to
- Jon> postmaster@ibm.com I got no response at all. And this was before most of the
- Jon> layoffs....
-
- 1. IBMers have to register for the Internet gateway, but no special permission
- is required.
-
- 2. The postmaster is *extremely* good about answering mail. I'm amazed that
- you didn't receive a reply. Are you sure the mail arrived there?
-
- 3. There have been no layoffs in IBM in over 50 years. IBM is asking for
- voluntary retirement and relocation from some employees, many whom are enjoying
- the opportunity to bridge to retirement. IBM has said that some lines of
- business may resort to layoffs if their lines of business can not be profitable
- otherwise.
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- Steve Hultquist Open systems and networking specialist
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