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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Request For Comments-- Should IBM be on the net?
Message-ID: <6959@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 10:35:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 10 10:35:50 1987
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References: <1903@umn-cs.UUCP>
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Keywords: IBM contact network information comments request answer

In article <1903@umn-cs.UUCP> haque@umn-cs.UUCP (Samudra E. Haque) writes:
|I am thinking of a proposal to "IBM" (we have a local liason office
|here at the University of Minnesota) to invite them to become a new
|member to USENET.  -- more --

This implies:
 a) IBM admits that their products are not perfect
 b) that they care.

Seriously:
 Relevant articles from this group (technical issues) are forwarded to
IBM. I have posted some patches and technical info to this group which
has come from IBM. They don't want to hear questions about policy, and
only have interest when one of their products doesn't work.

 By all means invite them, but don't be surprized if they reject you. 
They just got rid of the group which supported PC user groups (or cut it
way back), on the grounds that the market was corporate.  Be assured
that some of these notes do reach IBM. 

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me