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From: alberti@cs.umn.edu (Bob Alberti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Color Flyers.
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.204635.21001@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 20:46:35 GMT
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amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman <Amigaman>) writes:
>I heard if you close your eyes, crossed your fingers and wished really hard "I
>wish Marc would go away" 3 times it will really happen!

You know, I'm sorta new to this.  Please explain to me the Politically Correct
(tm) stance towards Marc Barrett on this board.  Are his messages supposed to
be judged individually on their content, or should one prejudiciously dismiss
anything he says, whether or not it makes sense?  Let me know - I want to be
a good little Amiga owner after all, and I won't let sense get in my way.

For my part, I have picked up the "Make Up Your Own Mind" Amiga flyer which
appeared in last Thursday's Minnesota Daily, and I found it quite absurd.
Never mind that it is thick.  With.  Unreadable text like this.  Which tries
to tell you.  Something.  Important.  By using too many.  Periods., never mind
that it uses a logo very reminiscent of IBM's "Toolbook" (the approaching
shark is part of Toolbook's animation demo).  Never mind that the name "Amiga"
is never obtrusive (it may be deliberate, after all).  The worst problem is
this:

You are urged to call a 1-800 number to obtain the name of "your Campus
Authorized Amiga Dealer".  Upon doing so I discovered that this dealer is
over ten miles away, in Bloomington, Minnesota!  For the love of Pete, what
lame-brain came up with THIS idea?  In between the U of M and Bloomington are
several decent Amiga dealers, including one right downtown by the campus.
If Amiga can't sell out of the campus bookstore (like IBM and Apple do), the
least it can do is sell from a dealer the students can reach.

Oh, but sorry, I forgot -- criticisms of Commodore are NOT welcome here.  I'll
stop, lest anyone add my name to Marc Barrett's in their kill-files (and golly,
wouldn't that just ruin MY social life).
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