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From: hugh%brl-bmd@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: PROTECTO SYNOPSIS
Message-ID: <14425@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 18:24:23 EST
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.14425
Posted: Wed Dec  7 18:24:23 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Dec-83 01:28:49 EST
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From:      Hugh Dempsey (USAFAS) <hugh@brl-bmd>

	A WHILE BACK, I SENT OUT A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON THE PROTECTO
MAIL-ORDER HOUSE:  I RECEIVED ONLY TWO ANSWERS:  NEITHER CORRESPONDENT HAD
DONE BUSINESS WITH PROTECTO.  BOTH HAD BEEN TURNED OFF BY PROTECTO'S
ADVERTISING STYLE: LIST A LOW PRICE WITH A FOOTNOTE THAT MENTIONS THAT YOU
MUST BUY A LARGE AMOUNT OF THEIR SOFTWARE.

	THIS IS THE ITEM THAT BOTHERED ME.  BASICALLY YOU ARE PAYING FULL
PRICE AND THEY THROW IN A BUNCH OF THEIR GENERIC SOFTWARE.  WITH ALL OF
THE PROBLEMS ONE ENCOUNTERS WITH NAME-BRAND SOFTWARE, I AM SKEPTICAL OF
THE VALUE OF GENERIC SOFTWARE.

	PROTECTO MUST BE DOING GREAT BUSINESS; THEIR ADS KEEP GETTING
BIGGER EACH MONTH.  YET NONE OF THEIR CUSTOMERS SEEM TO BE MEMBERS OF
INFO-MICRO.

		HUGH