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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Dave Lyons accepts AIIDTS job
Message-ID: <27622@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 89 01:10:45 GMT
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In article <9110@claris.com> krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) writes:
>I have a suggestion regarding letting people at Apple know about users'
>fear of the Apple II's death.  Find every posting you can, every day, that
>mentions problems with the Apple II and pass them around to your boss.
>If nothing happens, try his boss.  Wander over to marketing.  Take a field
>trip to sales.  Take the suggestions to the engineers.
>
Dave's boss will be my boss, who is Keith's former boss, etc:  Rilla
Reynolds.  Believe me, she knows about the Spring of our Discontent.

>As far as I can tell, of all the people at Apple, only AIIDTS listens to
>Usenet.  Maybe if someone else out there heard what was going on in here,
>they'd realize what's going on with the II.
>
This is not true.  Although I don't really know (honest) if I can discuss
what I mean or not (it's hard to tell what you can talk about and what
you can't, when it's internal policy), many people keep up to date with
comp.sys.apple, at least in a summary-type way.

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