Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request
From: "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: POETS Sets
Message-ID: <12444@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 90 22:33:00 GMT
Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu
Organization: Telecommunications Network Architects, Safety Harbor, FL
Lines: 11
Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 667, Message 6 of 12


Tad writes <in Digest Vol10,Iss648>:

>This is an electronic key system called the Walker Poet.

Didn't ANYBODY recognize the product marketing failure a "clever" name
like POETS put in the mind of every office worker, the expectation it
only worked on Friday: "P... On Everything; Tomorrow's Saturday!"  Oh,
how much I heard that and it burned into the buyers' minds.  Small
wonder Walker didn't get rich on that one!