Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!bluemoon!cmcurtin From: cmcurtin@bluemoon.uucp (Matthew Curtin) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Lotus Marketplace -- Lotus to pull out? Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 15:54:33 GMT References: Sender: bbs@bluemoon.uucp (BBS Login) Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-9980/2/4) Lines: 17 jsharaf@world.std.com (Jim Sharaf) writes: > A story in this morning's Boston Globe reports that Lotus is expected, at a > news conference today, to announce that it will *not* go ahead with the > marketplace product. Apparently there have been so many complaints, and so > many people asking to have their names & info deleted, that Lotus decided to > call it quits. Also, sales of the comparable product with business (rather > than consumer) info are reported to have been poor. > So, complaints and general noise-making sometimes do pay off. I thought that the official release was made two weeks ago... ______________________________________________________________________________ | C. Matthew Curtin ! "This is a strange game. The only way to | | P.O. Box 27081 ! win is not to play." -Joshua | | Columbus, OH 43227-0081 !---------------------------------------------| | cmcurtin@bluemoon.uucp _______!______________Apple_II_Forever!______________|