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From: macausla@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Robert MacAusland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Ode to Electronic Mail
Message-ID: <90Apr8.002401edt.58795@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 8 Apr 90 04:19:39 GMT
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On April 7th, 1990 Lynda Botez said:
[snip, snip]
>Why doesn't this innovative giant, Apple Computer, have some kind of
>electronic mailbox where people can forward their comments and concerns
>to them directly?  There are numerous users on this internet of nets
>(and that includes the MacIntosh people too) who would love to be able
>to contact Apple directly through electronic mail.
>
>Lynda
[sarcasm mode on]
I'm certain that Apple has full and complete facilities in place for user-based
feedback via internet/Bitnet and the like, but I'm sure, like many of Apple's
most tightly cloistered secrets, the actual E-Mail address's are known only to
a choice few who reside in the highest levels of Apple's famed ivory tower.  To
reveal this information to the public would be tantamount to allowing unbridled
exposure to comments, suggestions and worse yet, constructive criticism.  This
unthinkable act would not only completely undermine years of concerted effort
to keep outside influences to an absolute minimum, but it would also almost
certainly be in violation of the many non-disclosure agreements that had been
signed by the aforementioned executives upon receipt of their mail accounts.
[s-mode off] :-)

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