Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!ut-sally!ut-emx!jcc
From: jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (Chris Cooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Claris support (long)
Summary: Yes ftp, no mail lists.
Message-ID: <691@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 12:58:22 GMT
References: <315@claris.UUCP> <870124@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 47
Posted: Mon Feb  1 06:58:22 1988

In article <870124@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
> 
> >> 3)  Uploading demo versions
> >
> >No, it's hard to justify the phone/disk space for such obviously
> >commercial stuff.  You could provide an anonymous-uucp service for demos
> >and the like, and occasional announcements of its existance and contents
> >would be fair.
> 
> If you mean "anonymous ftp", then I whole-heartedly agree that that is
> a superior method to distributing demos. 

Yes.  I would happily "call" and download files/announcements/demos
from such a service.  If setting up a customer relations branch into
USENET is what Claris wants, this is the best way.  The net would 
be thus used in the non-business manner of transferring people's
requests to Claris personnel and the answers back to the asker.  Let
the net (comp.sys.mac, etc.) be for Claris' several employees' use.

In regard to the product announcements, please don't post them to the
net.  I just finished downloading and distributing several Claris
product announcements.  Each one was no less than 1 laserwritten page
in Times font, about 4-5 screenfulls, minimum, of announcement of a 
single product.  Have this available at ftp.

> 
> Another idea is to for Claris to solicit people to submit their name
> and e-mail address and form a "potential customer" mailing list.  Then
> Claris can e-mail the BinHex files *directly* to the interested people.

Ooodge.  This has the look of using government-supported communications
for a business use.  Not very good.  It would keep the net clear,
but I see the Corporate Tentacles of Claris somehow taking hold of what
should be more of a hobby for employees than a tool for business, similar
to the commendable way THINK Technologies, Inc. (did I get that right?)
lets employees act in a way not affiliated with the main business.



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