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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: re: offensive ad in Byte  (maybe...)
Message-ID: <199@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 15:41:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 15:41:33 1985
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>From: pgf@hou5g.UUCP (Paul Fox)
>Subject: offensive ad in Byte  (maybe...)
>Message-ID: <502@hou5g.UUCP>
>
>                        One wrong key.
>                        The slightest slip.
>                        And your accounts receivable
>                    are accounts irretrievable...
>                        ...If you employ people and
>                    computers, you're vulnerable."
>
>        Do other people out there find this offensive?

If I were the publisher of the software in question I'd be  very  offended.
No  good  software package is that fragile.  Anyone who keeps critical data
on a system that fragile and doesn't keep backups deserves what  they  get,
no matter who was using it at the time.

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The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)
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