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From: stein@druny.UUCP (SteinDW)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Save 50% on Long-Distance Phone Bill
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 15:49:54 EST
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>> 
>> i wonder how MCI will feel about this jerk posting his ad to the net?
>> what was supposed to start off as a "let everyone know MCI is here"
>> campaign has already backfired into a "piss everyone off" letter, and
>> consequently giving MCI a worse reputation than they already have
>> (as a cream-skimming, low-life company who wants "equal access"
>> but only if they get preferential treatment...)
>> sure hope MCI reads his letter AND all the nice responses.
>> 
>> 	ron vaughn	...!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv


>Say, has anyone checked out the date that message was posted?

>Seems to me it was April 1st.

>'nuff said.

>dann

Not enough said!!

Are we to assume that every article posted on April 1 was meant as
a joke? Even if the article appears deadly serious and had no indication
that it might be a joke?

Has the author of the offending advertisement stated that it was intended
as a joke?

Sorry, but it still seems to me to have been an advertisement and a
flagrant violation of the network etiquette, at least until the author
informs this forum that it was intended otherwise.

Don Stein
druny!stein