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From: dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: $99 Quattro offer
Message-ID: <366@saxony.pa.reuter.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 90 11:53:39 GMT
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I got one of these offers about a month ago, and sent in my order for it.  I
haven't received the software yet.

But I have gotten three more copies of the offer, all in the last 72 hours.
This seems a bit ridiculous.  One at the office and one at home might be
tolerable, but the two at the office differed only in that one showed my
department name and the other my title...

The other thing that I found a bit silly is that Borland has pre-coded them
all with *my* name and address.  I assume they know that their saturation
mailing is likely to produce duplicates.  Perhaps they don't realize that
there is also a good chance that some people who qualify for their offer
will not be on any of the mailiing lists they're using.  If the order forms
weren't pre-coded, I could pass them along to qualified friends who didn't
happen to get one, but since they are I guess all I can do is throw them
out.
                                              Dave