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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7487 ; Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:45:40 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:28311 comp.org.eff.talk:11841 comp.org.usenix:3169 comp.unix.bsd:10284 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!yorku.ca!davecb From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) Subject: Re: Discussion at Usenix (was Bad News for Human Beings) Message-ID: <davecb.727644416@yorku.ca> Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York University References: <BETSYS.93Jan15143516@ra.cs.umb.edu> <1j7f5rINNqvn@ftp.UU.NET> <93Jan15.211025edt.1578@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1993Jan17.203539.6063@s4mjs.uucp> <C12urA.7Dw@wimsey.bc.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:26:56 GMT Lines: 29 sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes: |Given the importance of presenting a positive image at a large trade |show and the $$$ spent to achieve it, you can bet that two things would |happen. First you *would* get noticed. And second you would probably be |escorted off the premises. |This may have some of the desired effect of course. Especially if the |trade press noticed. I was at the spring Interop, where a stagefull of PC-droids tried to convince a roomfull of experienced computer centre directors that their favorite version of non-interoperable PC mail was the right answer for the whole world. They got shouted at, laughed at and described in uncomplimentary terms by a bunch of suits. They took notice. Mind you, one company just started an advertizing campaign agains interoperability, but they **did** notice. And no-one was asked to leave: after all, we **were** the paying customers. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave 72 Abitibi Ave., | Willowdale, Ontario, | York postmaster and CANADA. 416-223-8968 | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.