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Subject: Re: AT&T Advertisement is Stupid
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Date: 5 Feb 90 21:03:04 GMT
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Place this under the heading of "Sprint Advertisement is Stupid".

Sprint began to run a new series of ads billing itself as the "most
reliable long-distance telephone company in the world", with the
standard asterisk pointing to "Based on no major outage".  Two
questions:

1)  Will MCI reconsider their decision not to kick AT&T while it was
    down?

2)  Has MCI had a major outage that would justify the tag on Sprint's 
    ads, e. g., is there any reason to think Sprint more reliable than
    AT&T?

K. M. Peterson  <KMP@VM370.Prime.COM> +1 508 879 2960 x3667 Prime Computer, Inc
(K. M. Peterson solely responsible for opinions expressed in this posting).