Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bbn.com From: milliken@bbn.com (Walter Milliken) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Steve Jackson Games (was Re: "Bad" backups) Message-ID: <61026@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 20 Nov 90 23:18:48 GMT References: <3014@igloo.scum.com> <60825@bbn.BBN.COM> <3026@igloo.scum.com> Sender: news@bbn.com Reply-To: milliken@bbn.com (Walter Milliken) Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: learn@igloo.scum.com (Bill HMRP Vajk) In article <3026@igloo.scum.com>, learn@igloo (Bill HMRP Vajk) writes: >Excuse me, Walter. You seem to have missed the entire point of this segment of >my article. No one, not even Steve Jackson, knows the magnitude of potential >purchasers who have never previously contacted him and now will not. True, but if this effect were substantial, one would expect that SJG would notice a loss of business from existing customers, as well. As far as I know, this hasn't happened, and I believe that SJG is selling their products about as well as they ever have. Naturally, this doesn't disprove your point, and it's certainly a valid problem to be wary of. But I was simply stating that I seriously doubt that it's been a major effect in this particular case, and that other, much more obvious damage occurred. ---Walter