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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Summary of responses regarding Jim Joyces Unix Bookstore
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.154538.17129@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1581@stsci.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 90 15:45:38 GMT

In article <1581@stsci.edu> siegel@stsci.EDU (Howard Siegel) writes:
>The results tended to lean toward the negative.  Some folks had very good
>service while others had extremely bad service...

In fairness, my understanding is that Jim has had both personal and
(non-bookstore) financial problems in the recent past, and a fair fraction
of this is "factors beyond our control" rather than incompetence or malice.

Of course, if your book is late, your book is late, and you may not be
too interested in all the horrible reasons...
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