Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: petrilli@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Take Issue With Moderator Buying Radio Shack Phones Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 21:41:58 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation Lines: 31 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 224, Message 5 of 10 Randy Borow writes about his preference for genuine Bell phones. [Moderator's Note: Reference text eliminated. See above messages. PAT] I take it you know everything about phones? It may be Pat's perogative that he peronally prefers Radio-Shack telehone equipment to AT&T or Bell equipment, and that is his choice. Some of us are unsatisfied with some of the AT&T made equipment, both price wise and in teh area of features. Do you also propose that nobody should purchase a UNIX machine or UNIX implementation from anyone but AT&T simply because they invented it, does not mean that they produce the best there is. I am using an HP machine at the moment, and am 10x as satisfied with is as I was with a 3b2 system from AT&T. Please take personal attacks elsewhere, they do not belong in this forum. Chris Petrilli Internet: petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu [Moderator's Note: Really, I think you are being a bit harsh. I didn't regard his comment as a personal attack, and truth be told, I do like AT&T phones also ... but Radio Shack is two blocks away, and the nearest phone center store is on Devon and California Avenue, about six blocks west. Since I don't own a car, and don't know how to drive, I either walk, take a cab, or the Devon #155 bus. Given my 'druthers, I walk to Radio Shack, and stop at Dunkin Donuts on the way home. PAT]