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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: What's all this, then?  (VersaTerm)
Keywords: bogus!
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Date: 23 Apr 89 06:30:24 GMT
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Here's a cute one: Got a letter in the mail today from Synergy Software, the
people distributing VersaTerm these days.  I'd sent in a check for $20 about
a month and a half ago for the Versaterm 4.0 upgrade, and figured it would
be a note saying there was a delay.  (S'Okay -- I understand getting those
last few bugs out.  Besides, after Word 4.0, anything other delays pale. :-))

It's a note saying that my upgrade to VersaTerm may not come to me until
May.  Okay again, but why?  Because the demand is so heavy!  "We are filling
orders on a first come, first served basis."

What, the demand for VersaTerm upgrades is so great, they just CAN'T make
enough copies of the disks and documentation?  What have they got, some old
wizened guy in a basement room, duplicating disks with an external floppy
drive and a copy of Disk Dup+?  "Jah, we may be able to get five out today,
mein herr!"  Gee, all the disk duplication services on the East Coast must
be booked up solid! :-)

Look, in this case I don't mind it if they haven't got the software quite
ready yet (VersaTerm 3.2 is just fine, thank you).  But if they're going to
come up with an excuse, it might be nice to try something a little less
lame.

                           "Drop the gun or I'll kill
                            your girlfriend."
                                                     "Go ahead.  I got lots of
                                                      girlfriends."
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