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From: northrup@wpi.wpi.edu (Jim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Mail Order Survey
Message-ID: <9092@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 90 07:21:13 GMT
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Reply-To: northrup@wpi.wpi.edu (Jim Northrup)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <0ZtnI5C00WB84HJ3hT@andrew.cmu.edu> sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun 
>What are you doing??  Where were you when I was asking for help??  You
>said that you have scanned the NET for couple years and heard of lot of
>complaints...but have you checked the NET the last month or so??  I

I just scanned all of the back comp.sys.amiga articles from the last few
months at my site, keying on the string ODeaN.  This is the only posting
rn found.  Did you do this survey on comp.sys.amiga?  It's never made it
to this site.

>did a similar project back in November and posted the results last
>month.  It is called ODeaN and I hope to put out another list pretty soon.

Hmmmmm....they didn't make it to this site.  Geez, sorry, didn't mean to
make anybody mad.  It just occured to me that this would be a good thing
to have.  I'm not intending any mail order purchases any time soon, but 
I thought that in lieu of the complaints, netland would like such a survey.
We can read magazine articles, for instance, to recommend hardware and
software, but magazines can't afford to rate mail order distributors for
fear of losing advertising.  In this case, we have to act as our own
consumer advocates.

My survey has been out for less than 24 hours and I have about 20 responses
so far.  Great!  Thanks!  Keep it up!  Maybe by next weekend I'll have
enough responses to be able to post meaningful results.

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Jim Northrup                                               northrup@wpi.wpi.edu
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences             WPI, Worcester MA  01609