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From: bobh@pedsgd.UUCP (Bob Halloran)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Obnoxious USENET Advertiser
Message-ID: <362@pedsgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 08:33:26 EST
Article-I.D.: pedsgd.362
Posted: Tue Nov 19 08:33:26 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Nov-85 20:12:46 EST
References: <1212@jhunix.UUCP>
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Organization: CONCURRENT Computer Corp, Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1212@jhunix.UUCP> you write:
>Look what *I* found on net.general:
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>From: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joe Orost)
>Subject: Perkin-Elmer DSG is now CONCURRENT Computer Co.
>Message-ID: <670@petsd.UUCP>
>Date: 13 Nov 85 20:50:51 GMT
>
>	(Copy of letter from company CEO announcing spinoff of Perkin-Elmer
>	  Data Systems as CONCURRENT Computer Corp.)
>
>				Sincerely,
>				James K. Sims
>				President And CEO
>				CONCURRENT Computer Corporation
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>While we have been busy condemning everybody else for such vile practices
>as posting shareware, flaming, and non-optimization of mail paths, someone
>has crept into our midst and posted what is without a doubt the most
>flagrant violation of netiquette I have seen in my short tenure as a
>USENETter: a posting of an out-and-out ad to net.general.  Well, what
>shall we do?  I have already sent him some interesting reading (I restricted
>myself from sending as much as I would have like to send, in the name of
>keeping the associated phone bill below $1000 :-)... ).  This is, according
>to the USENET primer, serious enough to warrant cutting CONCURRENT's news
>feed.  Any comments?
>
>                                                  Jonathan Kay

The purpose of the posting was NOT!!! a plug, as you so cheerfully :-)
imply.  The simple fact is that a computer manufacturer has been spun off
from their parent company, with a name change, and we thought our customers
and associates should know.  Postings are regularly seen on this net of
sitename changes, companies undergoing merger with other firms or, too
often of late, going under, etc., and these seem to be perfectly acceptable
fare.  We have already had people hanging up phones on us with a 'Sorry,
wrong number' when we answer as 'Concurrent'; we thought people on the
net might want to know where all these 'Concurrent' postings came from
and what happened to all those people who used to be at Perkin-Elmer.
Perhaps the letter from the CEO was the wrong thing to post; the fact
of the name change WAS.  

					Bob Halloran
					Sr MTS, CONCURRENT Computer Corp
					(Formerly Perkin-Elmer DSG)
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