Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!diamond From: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apology to Howard Diamond for Hothead Post Message-ID: <15380@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 24 Oct 90 21:00:39 GMT References: <15113@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Oct17.165611.21133@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <107311@convex.convex.com> <1990Oct22.031850.21820@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) Distribution: na Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 41 In article <1990Oct22.031850.21820@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes: >> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >>>May I decry the bonehead stupidity of forbidding dealers from handing >>>out copies? WHAT HAS COMMODORE GOT AGAINST FREE ADVERTISING? Is your >>>sales line going to plummet because user groups start showing Amiga 500 >>>owners what the A3000 can do? We don't ask much out here, Howard, but >>>the tiniest evidence of a shred of thought would be so pleasant for a >>>change. >> >>Hey, Kent, mellow out, I haven't seen any other significant computer >>corporation with vice presidents posting regularly to the net and carrying >>on conversations with users. We don't need to start insulting Howard Diamond, >>please! > >Sigh. How right you are; I was shooting my mouth off without knowing the >facts. > > >Sorry, Howard, I was out of line. Humble apologies, etc. > >The rest of marketing can feel free to jump up and down on my carcass for >a while too. > >Kent, the man from xanth. > No Problem....In fact, I was more frustrated than you could imagine, when I was told that we had limited copy access to some of the materials used in the video.....I thought then, and still think that it would be a GREAT sales tool. I try not to overreact to shots at Commodore Marketing.....we are making progress, but are not at all where we want to be, or where we know the AMIGA deserves us to be........ -- Howard S. Diamond Director of Education, Commodore Business Machines 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa, 19380 diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com 215-431-9142 MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!! AMIGA!