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From: brownp@lurch.rtp.dg.com (Peter Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: If you insult Atari employees they'll just leave
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.145136.4700@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 14:51:36 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.080533.23844@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
|> Cast of characters:
|> 
|> Jim Townsend is an Atari employee, who occasionally provides very
|> useful information. He doesn't set Atari policy.
|> 
|> Bob Retelle is someone who likes to insult people. He wants to change
|> Atari so bad he'd rather drive away Atari employees providing us
|> support for our computers than be quiet. After all, if you badger the
|> low-level employees they're sure to march right into the President's
|> office and demand change.
|> 
|> In article <36556@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
|> >John Tewnsend writes:
|> >
|> >>Finally! Someone who sums up the entire situation. I remember when reading 
|> >>news was fun and most of all a learning experience. Seems like the quality
|> >>of people and information here is slipping a great deal. 
|> >
|> >I remember when Atari Corp. produced and marketed quality, cutting-edge
|> >products, instead of jerking around users, dealers and developers.
|> >It seems the quality of people and information at Atari Corp has slipped
|> >a great deal.
|> 
|> Townsend is a good person. If you keep it up, Bob, the quality of
|> information on this newsgroup is going to decline even more.
|> 
I gotta second that!  Let's not bash the people who help us out.