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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: BORLAND TECHNICAL SUPPORT (or lack of)
Message-ID: <14186@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 90 22:16:37 GMT
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Organization: UESPA
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In <51330003@hpindda.cup.hp.com> hardin@hpindda.cup.hp.com (John Hardin) writes:


>Though it's easy to rack up a $50/mo bill for CIS, that is definitely
>not a minimum for reasonable participation.  Try something closer to
>$15 - $20/mo.  If you only use it when you need help, you pay $1.50
>per month to keep the service and then whatever it takes to post your
>complaint and read replies.

If you're only going to post complaints and read replies, why bother
with CompuServe at all?  Borland will respond to written questions via
US mail.  They'll even respond to email via US Mail.  What they won't
do is respond to email via email.
-- 

ergo@netcom.uucp			Isaac Rabinovitch
{apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo	Silicon Valley, CA

Collins's Law:
	If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Corollaries ("Rabinovitch's Rules of Sane Dialogue"):
	1. Everybody who matters is stupid now and then.
	2. If I'm being stupid, that's my problem.
	3. If my being stupid makes you stupid, that's your problem.
	4. If you think you're never stupid, boy are you stupid!