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From: nick@sura.net (Nick Lemberos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP bias's
Keywords: hp, employees, religion, kmart
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.232149.4794@sura.net>
Date: 15 Apr 91 23:21:49 GMT
Followup-To: nick@umuc.umd.edu
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In article <7370367@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mike@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike McNelly) writes:
>> >From: lang@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John J. Lang)
>> >Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
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>
>> This is not the only example I have seen in the last week.  It is getting 
>> pretty bad.  It makes a difference if the opinions expressed are coming
>> from employees of the same company.  Since this is comp.sys.HP, how about HP
>> employees making it REAL clear whose opinion they state.
>
>                         > nick
>
>> nick@umuc.umd.edu
>
>Nick, I think if you'll look at the top part of you posting you'll see
>the company name is fairly prominently displayed.  Most of the postings
>to the net contain both a signature and an email address which I had
>previously assumed people could decipher.  If you see any email or
>posting from *.hp.com it's a strong clue where it came from.
>
>Lots of our most critical customers are internal, I can assure you, and
>we don't take loyalty oaths.  You're free to read anything into our
>postings that you wish.  I think the author of the note you quoted was
>trying to make an honest effort to help the requester.
>
>Mike McNelly
>mike@fc.hp.com	(That's Hewlett Packard Company)
 
if a post comes from *.hp.com i should assume that it comes from an 
HP employee? Should i assume this person is knowlegeable of what he speaks?
Should i also assume he is not an HP sales rep?  I guess there are no
spouses, friends or relatives on hp.com.

What im trying to say is, if this group is about Kmart, and u work 
for Kmart, dont u think it should make it very clear if you are on the
clock or not?  Are you expressing your personal opinion or the companies?

                              nick

ps: i apologize to the previous poster if he knew not what he was doing.

nick@umuc.umd.edu
my opinions