Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hardware:1862 comp.dcom.modems:5310 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!rcbal!fk From: fk@kos.rci.dk (Fleming Kraglund) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Dosn't like bad recommendations (was Re: not: Where can I buy Telebit (or other modems) cheap?) Message-ID: <537@kos.rci.dk> Date: 23 Feb 90 19:15:46 GMT References: <8377@potomac.ads.com> <1358@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> <1784@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Organization: RC International, Copenhagen, Denmark Lines: 22 eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes: >i find it ironic that a 3com employee would slam one company and >recommend another, as Norman does below. i made a similar recommendation >regarding 3com ethernet cards and those of its competitors, and >was promptly threatened with legal action by one of 3com's whining ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >marketing twits who reads the net. my recommendation may have been >a bit cruder than Norman's, and was less detailed. oh well... Isn't that illegal. If I (and I mean me [or at least the write of the article]) thinks that a certain product dosn't deserve recommendation, but rater a warnning, ain't I free to say so?. (free speach and friends) And if they really want to threaten you to shut up, there's something roung somewhere Flemming Kraglund -- fk@rci.dk (I hate .sig files)