Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!sunaus.oz!newstop!sun!rock From: rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro - SunOS Marketing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Ehman horror story. Message-ID: <135239@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 4 May 90 23:05:50 GMT References: <24356@usc.edu> <1819@east.East.Sun.COM> <2531@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 36 ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes: >In article <1819@east.East.Sun.COM> msmiller@Sun.COM (Mark Miller) writes: >> >>I'd bet on more. I stopped by their booth at MacWorld a few weeks ago, they >>had a good deal on a 19" display. So I start asking the dude (I am using this >>appropriately, he was barely awake) about some of the things I had read in >>the last months MacWorld and MacUser reviews. Not only didn't he know the >>answers, he didn't even know that there had been TWO feature reviews on big- >>screen displays. >>Feeb-city. > I think its a little presumptious to assume that everyone runs out > and reads MacWorld or MacUsers reviews and then slight the whole > company because you think he should have read all these articles > just to satisfy you. I'll have to respectfully disagree with you here, Norm. This is exactly why the "dude" is at the show, to positively reflect on his company. If he isn't doing that, then the wrong person is in the booth. If he hasn't read what his company is saying to the two largest trade mags about his product, he shouldn't be telling the public something different. > And if you've never had to sit in a booth at Macworld for several > hours, I would bet you would be half-awake too.. >-- >Norm Goodger SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862 >3Com Corp. Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie. >Enterprise Systems Division (I disclaim anything and everything) >UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM -- Bill Petro {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock "UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" Matthew 19:12