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From: izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Reward for NeXT's response on the net.
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Date: 23 Jan 91 06:34:02 GMT
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In article <34099@athertn.Atherton.COM>
	 dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) writes:
>
>I think many people would like to see more NeXT employees take some
>of their OWN time to talk with their customers in comp.sys.next--this
>is of course a personal decision on the part of NeXT employes...they also
>have a lot of work to do to keep their  company alive and their technology
>competitive with offerings from (Apple, Sun, IBM et al).

I do appreciate NeXT employees taking their own time and post articles
in this newsgroup.

However, it may make a lot of sense for NeXT to have a FULLY PAID
employee (or two) in their work time to monitor all reasonable
messages and alert appropriate people with the summary of
suggestions made in comp.sys.next.
(May be this is just the sort of work for good student consultants.)

Responses to the questions raised may be put into something
like NextAnswers, or into a corner of NeXT on Campus, etc.

Since all the messages posted here are public domain data,
I don't think this causes any problem with the Internet restrictions
mentioned in an earlier posting.

If anybody has problems with NeXT analyzing comp.sys.next
directly off the net, then they can buy the data from
LightHouse Designs.

Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail)


Izumi Ohzawa     [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
Group in Neurobiology/School of Optometry, 360 Minor Hall
University of California, Berkeley, California 94720