Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!mcnc!gatech!psuvax1!psuhcx!msp From: msp@psuhcx.psu.edu (Mark S. Pfaff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AppleLink PE woes Keywords: AppleLink ACU Message-ID: <1016@psuhcx.psu.edu> Date: 1 Nov 88 02:49:44 GMT References: <8742@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: msp@psuecl (Mark S. Pfaff) Organization: Penn State University Lines: 56 In article joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes: >You are right, it is all pretty badly written and the support is >worse. pretty typical of applelink as i knew it. >I also downloaded that interim version from ALink PE. It was touted >as being the final release software and it obviously wasn't The >final release software keeps stuff in subdirectories. also quite typical. i remember lots of "real soon now" and crap like that when referring to additions and revisions and such. >AppleLinke BETA TESTERS! Did you ever get the complete final package >you were promised or are you still waiting? Final packages are being >sent to users group members who sent in postcards and to people who >filled out a request form at AppleFest, Have they forgotten us?!?! >If you haven't received yours, please call customer service, or write >and let them know. heh heh heh, well, i sure haven't gotten MY final package. -EVEN THOUGH they sent me that letter dated june 1 and postmarked june 3 saying how wonderful a person i was for being a beta tester and all that and how they wanted to send me all this free garbage and stuff. -EVEN THOUGH when i booted up my old disk just to see what would happen and it ACCEPTED ME and took all my new billing info! -EVEN THOUGH they later sent me a checkfree form to fill out which i mailed back and haven't heard anything about! -EVEN THOUGH my account was canceled on may 31, 1988! hmmmm.... and i still haven't received the applelink tshirt that i won back in may or april or sometime. have any of you received your applelink tshirts, applelink coffee mugs, applelink pencils, applelink condoms...? well, you all may have heard my name bandied about the link by such people as roberta sarfati, gary gilmore, rose salerno, liz waters, julie owens, larry nathanson, sandra brockmann, and others. any of them can tell you my story. the movie rights are currently being negotiated between me and nbc (geraldo rivera wants to get just the facts, ma'am). mark "only in america" pfaff (known on alink as mark pfaff) -- 260 Homan Avenue, State College, PA 16801-6332. (814) 238-3249. MSP@PSUECL