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From: wilber@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: HDB from the STORE (was: Dialing both in & out)
Keywords: Enough already
Message-ID: <7549@alice.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 87 19:38:52 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Posted: Fri Dec 18 14:38:52 1987

John Wilkes <wilkes@mips.UUCP> writes
>In article <448@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>#In article <7532@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes:
>#>For the record, the best solutions (at least for AT&T employees) are:
>#>
>#>1)  Snarf HDB UUCP from the STORE!
>#
>#Will you guys please stop telling the whole world about how you
>#fortunate AT&T employess can get wonderful stuff from the STORE that
>#the rest of us peons may never see?  Personally, I'm getting more
>#and more pissed off
>
>Yeah, what he said.
>[Flames deleted]
>An alternative would be for one of you ATT types to offer to send HDB to
>all of us peons.
>
>If you don't know how to restrict your gloating to att machines, please use
>e-mail instead of posting.

First: An apology to everyone on comp.sys.att.  My summary of the AT&T-only
solution to my problem should only have been posted to att.sys.unixpc.

Second: I was not "gloating."  When you obtain the solution to a problem that
others are likely to be interested in it is only polite to summarize the
results so that they don't have to go through the trouble you did.  Again, I
should have restricted the posting to AT&T.

Third: I can't send HDB to you "peons" (not my word) for the same reason I
can't give you free telephones -- it's not mine to give away.  I agree that
if AT&T doesn't want to give HDB away for free through the STORE! they 
should at least sell it, since there's obviously a demand for the thing.
I'm not the one who makes those decisions, however.

Fourth: I won't post any more flames about HDB to comp.sys.att if you don't.

Bob Wilber   wilber@research.att.com

Disclaimer: Obviously these aren't AT&T's official opinions, 'cause if they
            were, you'd be able to buy HDB.