Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm.bitnet!cwugc From: CWUGC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: IBM Support Structure Message-ID: <2607CWUGC@CUNYVM> Date: 17 Oct 89 01:25:14 GMT References: <8843@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Organization: The City University of New York - New York, NY Lines: 13 The local support in NYC in my limited knowledge for RT/AIX/AOS staff is broken down into Educational and Business etc. The educational support at times are behind the schools in terms of information and have a typical answers such "I'm sure you'll get it from the network" ...."Gee I'm sure there is an answer but I cannot figure one out of hand...let me get back to you later...". We only call support via the Marketing reps only if all else fails. keep in mind (I speak of NYC) most reps in Madison Ave. do not have access to local IBM bbs or netnews and depend on standard memos (I believe that is what gives them the bug reports info). SO David not all fingers are equal. Wu