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From: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Cooperation
Message-ID: <16913@obiwan.mips.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 89 01:18:21 GMT
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In article <2659@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
  >Well, not being an established company with a product, a friend of mine
  >and I wanted to talk to someone at NeXt about getting one of these cubes
  >for designing a specific program. All we got was a secretary putting
  >down our name.  Even after specifically requesting repeatedly to talk
  >to someone, we were informed that this was impossible.
  >
  >That was about 3 months ago. We haven't heard from NeXt yet. Similarly,
**>a message to the only participant of NeXt on this net (Ali O.) was never
  >even replied to with a hint who we should contact.
  >
  >Seems uncooperative to me... I wonder how you even started to talk to
  >them.  Are you big enough so that NeXt would contact you?


Sounds like it's known for sure that NeXT has a net-feed (line ** above),
so it's a given, a certainty, that most of their technical folks read
this newsgroup.  Heck, maybe even their marketing & management jockeys
read it too.  Feedback of both kinds (gripes and praise) on the net are
heard (and quite likely, acted upon) if not acknowledged.

Also, the command "uupath next" reveals that NeXT can send and receive
email; perhaps NeXT would operate less stand-offishly if approached
this way.  Of course the exact wrong thing to do would be to mail
a hotheaded flame to ...!next!steve  ---- that'd pretty much guarantee
that you'll _never_ lay hands on a freebie.

-- mj