Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!acf3!russell From: russell@acf3.NYU.EDU (Bill Russell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Shoe Salesman? Message-ID: <170021@acf3.NYU.EDU> Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 03:54:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf3.170021 Posted: Tue Aug 25 03:54:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 05:11:36 EDT References: Organization: New York University Lines: 10 The fact that you are a computer salesman has no predictive power whatever with respect to your technical competence -- that's exactly the problem. The fact that you are good doesn't affect the _fact_ that most computer salesman are technically imbecilic, and pretty carefree about customer service as well. After enough experience, we can generalize _all we want_ -- a handful of counter-examples just shows that we're not talking sterile tautologies. Computer salesmen are not ex car salesmen; they are aspiring car salesmen. -r (Richard Reich as russell@nyu)