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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,rec.humor
Subject: Re: AT&T Customer Service Memo
Message-ID: <421@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 23:29:47 GMT
References: <159@mkunix.DEC.COM> <570@auvax.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 35
Keywords: Funny but true, too true
Summary: Tom didn't write it, I did

In article <570@auvax.UUCP>, louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
> In article <159@mkunix.DEC.COM>, tyager@mkunix.DEC.COM (Tom Yager) writes:
> > 
> >  
> >                 AT&T Customer Service Memorandum
> >  
> >      Please stop submitting compliants.  This is our system.  We
> > designed it, we built it, and we use it more than you do.  If
> 
> This was the most offensive posting I have seen from from vendor about
> another vendor.  Not funny, not accurate, merely scurrilous. Doesn't
> belong on comp.unix.xenix, nor rec.humor, nor anywhere else, except 
> the author's waste basket.  Does Tom Yager really work for DEC?

     Tom didn't write that, I did.  My posting of this (to
rec.humor only) was marked "Satire" and was following up a *very*
funny "Advanced User's Guide to the DEC Rainbow PC100 Users
Guide".  For unknown reasons, Tom Yager posted this to rec.humor
and comp.unix.xenix a day after I did with no indication where it
came from.

     It *is* satire, many of us in the AT&T world (I'm a VAR/ISV)
chuckle at the humor even though it is not nearly so true as it
might have in the past (I've been using 3B2/3B5s since 1984 -- I
could tell some *great* stories).

     Sorry if it offended anybody or that it found its way
outside of rec.humor.  Also, I don't get comp.unix.xenix so
flames or notes should be sent via email.

     Regards,
     Steve
-- 
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