From: jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu (JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI))
Subject: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/01
Message-ID: <1995May1.220223.14567@ivax>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101865602
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Here's a prototype print-sign-and-send letter for Escom. Any suggestions?
DON'T SEND IT YET! I want feedback so we can fine-tune it first!
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|John Shepard jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu I wanna go to a real school someday! |
| Internet is too important to be taken seriously. | Artist, writer, net.loon |
| Amiga owner & Sarah McLachlan fan: God help me! |in the making. Finger me &|
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---letter begins here---
To whom it may concern,
For too long, Amiga users like myself have patiently waited for Commodore to
come to its senses and realize the enormous potential of this fine computer.
Its failure to adapt to the needs of the Amiga users, and its inability to
promote its products, eventually caused its downfall, leaving Amiga technology
and the entire Amiga market at a standstill for almost a year.
Your company, Escom AG, put a much-anticipated end to that standstill by
winning the auction to purchase Commodore's assets and technology. But now we
wait again, anxiously watching you as we wait for your next move.
After ten years, the Amiga is still a viable technology. Its graphics hardware
is unique among computers. Its operating system is perhaps the sleekest and
most efficient of its kind. And the price/performance value is simply
unequaled in the computer industry. Today there are more than four million
Amigas in the world, and with them come the most dedicated users in the history
of personal computing.
Escom holds the future of the Amiga in its hands. You stand ready to make the
Amiga into everything it deserves to be, or to let it fall from the market the
way Commodore did. But Escom stands to make money from the Amiga, as well as
earn fame in the computer industry.
To realize this potential, however, Escom cannot ignore the Amiga community. A
happy Amiga owner is a potential repeat buyer, something Commodore never
learned in its lifetime. Amiga fans sometimes make the best Amiga salespeople.
And for you to succeed in the Amiga market requires that you maintain a rapport
with the Amiga community as a whole. We know what we want from our machines,
and we have good ideas if you are willing to listen.
What is needed now is a show of support from Escom, something more than press
releases and the odd interview. It is the responsibility of whichever company
owns the Amiga to contact developers and let them know the Amiga is alive and
well. It is the responsibility of whichever company owns the Amiga to let the
existing owner base know their voices can and will be heard. Most important, it
is the responsibility of whichever company owns the Amiga to pursue active
development and marketing for the platform, to ensure that the Amiga succeeds
in 1995 and beyond. There exist prototype next-generation Amigas, which have
gathered dust for a year. If the Amiga is to continue as anything but another
faceless "clone" system, these systems must see the light of day. It falls to
you to ensure that these systems reach the marketplace in a timely fashion,
accompanied by a competent marketing strategy and honest support.
Amiga owners are highly loyal people, and are now looking for someone in whom
they can place that loyalty. Commodore betrayed our trust by letting our
beloved machine fail in the marketplace. Now we wait for a sign from Escom, to
see if you are indeed worthy of our trust and support. We will support you,
with the kind of support no other computer company could ever earn, but first
we need to know you will support the Amiga.
Signed,
An Amiga owner,
_________________________
From: jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu (JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI))
Subject: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/01
Message-ID: <1995May1.220435.14568@ivax>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101865603
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
When we get the bugs worked out of that letter, we'll probably post it to
several of the Amiga groups, after which you simply print it, sign it, and mail
it to ESCOM. I would hope a few thousand letters on their doorstep would get
Escom's attention, no? :-) (It would mine!)
--
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| Internet is too important to be taken seriously. | Artist, writer, net.loon |
| Amiga owner & Sarah McLachlan fan: God help me! |in the making. Finger me &|
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From: dgr...@cycor.ca (Dennis Grant)
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/02
Message-ID: <dgrant-0205951735460001@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101865694
references: <1995May1.220223.14567@ivax> <3o5lcu$jq3@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>
organization: Cycor Communications Inc.
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
[letter deleted]
I think that this letter, as written, is a bad idea. If I were an Escom
bigwig, I would resent being told "what my company needs to do"
Instead, a short, polite note, congratulating them on obtaining the Amiga,
and indicating your interest in purchasing new models, and perhaps
indicating that if they would like some user input, you are willing to
help should suffice.
They want customers after all, not patients. :)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Dennis Grant Cycor Tech (Amiga&Mac) Support / HTML & Graphic Design
dgr...@cycor.ca Amiga 4000/040/6/970/17"IDEK/2XCD-ROM/14.4 AmiTCP
http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/ Visit Trog's Cave!
From: swmpt...@cais2.cais.com (Swampthing)
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/02
Message-ID: <3o4tvh$ha5@news.cais.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101865759
references: <1995May1.220435.14568@ivax>
organization: Capital Area Internet Service
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI) (jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu) wrote:
: I would hope a few thousand letters on their doorstep would get
: Escom's attention, no? :-) (It would mine!)
On the other hand, it could also very easily cause the opposite effect.
Although mass form letter mailings are becoming rather trite these days,
the new owners could get the impression they've inherited a bunch of
obsessive fanatics on their hands and opt to cut us out just like
Commodore.
Swampthing
From: j...@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/03
Message-ID: <3o7kj7$jlg@news1.delphi.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101865635
references: <1995May1.220223.14567@ivax> <3o5lcu$jq3@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>
<dgrant-0205951735460001@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca>
organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
x-newsreader-author: lwil...@BIX.com (Loren Wilton)
reply-to: j...@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
In article <dgrant-0205951735460...@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca>,
dgr...@cycor.ca (Dennis Grant) wrote:
>[letter deleted]
>
>I think that this letter, as written, is a bad idea. If I were an Escom
>bigwig, I would resent being told "what my company needs to do"
>
>Instead, a short, polite note, congratulating them on obtaining the Amiga,
>and indicating your interest in purchasing new models, and perhaps
>indicating that if they would like some user input, you are willing to
>help should suffice.
>
>They want customers after all, not patients. :)
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Dennis Grant Cycor Tech (Amiga&Mac) Support / HTML & Graphic Design
>dgr...@cycor.ca Amiga 4000/040/6/970/17"IDEK/2XCD-ROM/14.4 AmiTCP
>http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/ Visit Trog's Cave!
Thanks, Dennis. It is good to see someone else out there who has some
good sense and decorum. In my 25 years playing in the corporate world
one thing I have learned is that one does not TELL corporate presidents
"what they must/should/ought to do." One congratulates them for their
perspicacity and suggests that you might have an interest in one of their
(potential) products. And one ALWAYS says this in the politest of possible
terms.
The only exception to this rule is when you are letting a corporate
president know that his so-and-so underling is screwing up his job. And
even THEN you do NOT lapse into abusive language. Instead you still
write politely and to the point. (And for Ghu's sake sound like an adult
when you write.)
{^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX
j...@bix.com The Wizardess
From: kir...@cc.umanitoba.ca (Evan Kirchhoff)
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/03
Message-ID: <3o8e52$92o@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101988037
references: <1995May1.220435.14568@ivax> <3o4tvh$ha5@news.cais.com>
organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
In article <3o4tvh$...@news.cais.com> swmpt...@cais2.cais.com (Swampthing)
writes:
>On the other hand, it could also very easily cause the opposite effect.
>Although mass form letter mailings are becoming rather trite these days,
>the new owners could get the impression they've inherited a bunch of
>obsessive fanatics on their hands and opt to cut us out just like
>Commodore.
I think the psychoanalysis is getting out of hand here. Escom will make
whatever they think they can sell, and _any_ pro-Amiga letters, no matter
what they say, will presumably help to convince them that some kind of
market still exists, is worth advertising to, etc.
I can't see a large multinational corporation saying, "Gee, we've got
5000 letters here from people who want to buy this product, but these
people sound 'silly', so I don't think we want to sell them anything..."
Commodore should have welcomed "fanaticism", and encouraged it. Apple
certainly used to, and probably still does.
--
Evan Kirchhoff, kir...@cc.umanitoba.ca
From: jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu (JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI))
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/03
Message-ID: <1995May3.123645.14608@ivax>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101988039
references: <1995May1.220223.14567@ivax> <3o5lcu$jq3@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>
<dgrant-0205951735460001@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca>
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
In article <dgrant-0205951735460...@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca>, dgr...@cycor.ca
(Dennis Grant) writes:
> [letter deleted]
>
> I think that this letter, as written, is a bad idea. If I were an Escom
> bigwig, I would resent being told "what my company needs to do"
>
> Instead, a short, polite note, congratulating them on obtaining the Amiga,
> and indicating your interest in purchasing new models, and perhaps
> indicating that if they would like some user input, you are willing to
> help should suffice.
>
> They want customers after all, not patients. :)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dennis Grant Cycor Tech (Amiga&Mac) Support / HTML & Graphic Design
> dgr...@cycor.ca Amiga 4000/040/6/970/17"IDEK/2XCD-ROM/14.4 AmiTCP
> http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/ Visit Trog's Cave!
I have to disagree. So far, despite their repetition that they understand the
market, have hired bazillions of ex-CBM employees, and have sold Amigas in the
past, I haven't seen any concrete evidence that they know what they're getting
into, or what's needed to succeed with the Amiga.
I feel a little friendly reminder of what went wrong is essential, because
right now, and call me negative, they seem to be heading that way again, by
ignoring the Amiga community sorta like another company I could name that went
out of business this time last year.
IMO, your suggestion seems sorta "care bearsey" to me: I think they need to
know we're not the Escom fan club, we're Amiga fans first, and that if they
want our support, they have to support the Amiga with at least as much zeal as
we do, or they'll lose our respect. And come to think of it, they have to gain
our respect first, don't they? Owning the technology does not necessarily
guarantee saintood for a company, nor immortality, else Commodore would still
be in business.
We've seen "hopes for the future" come and go. We saw the Shareholders'
Movement, and how effective that was at preventing Commodore's bankruptcy. We
saw lots of pep talk from Commodore UK in particular, bragging about how much
support they had received from the Amiga community, and how they fell apart
financially at the very end and are now a suburb of Escom. Prior to all this,
we've seen Commodore USA presidents come and go, marketing plans on the drawing
boards that never got past the drawing boards, "next generation" Amigas delayed
or cancelled, etc. etc. Some of us are getting just a little jaded by all this,
and quite frankly, if I were to send a nice, upbeat, "We support you" letter to
Escom, and then they let the Amiga die again, I'm gonna feel really shitty.
Perhaps we should have _two_ letters: a brief, upbeat letter, and then one like
mine, telling Escom the painful truth: they have to _earn_ our respect, and our
business. Because aside from spare parts, if Escom doesn't put an effort into
this, I won't buy a whole helluva lot of Amiga stuff from them if I don't have
to. I have two Amigas now, and aside from software and maybe a RAM/accelerator
for the 1200, and of course, a Super Denise for the 500 and some spare parts, I
don't see myself buying much new amiga hardware, and therefore don't really
need much from Escom except the assurance that I own computers that aren't
orphans.
[rant mode off]
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|John Shepard jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu I wanna go to a real school someday! |
| Internet is too important to be taken seriously. | Artist, writer, net.loon |
| Amiga owner & Sarah McLachlan fan: God help me! |in the making. Finger me &|
|"Enrich the soil, no soul no soul" Sarah McLachlan| tell me that you love me.|
From: H...@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/04
Message-ID: <138090@cup.portal.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101988006
sender: pc...@unix.portal.com
references: <1995May1.220223.14567@ivax>
organization: The Portal System (TM)
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
John... without back-quoting a dozen articles here, I would *strongly*
suggest that you study JDow's response to your proposed letter. It's
almost exactly what I would have suggested to you had I not seen her
reply first.
I urge you not to take a "Hey Escom. Listen Up. You MUST do this.
You MUST do that" approach. Corporate officers and mgrs do not
respond well to rabid fervor-laden demands, no matter how good
the writers' intentions are. Please be reasoned and sound
less demanding. We want them to know (a) what they now own,
(b) how many of us are fans of this product and use it daily,
(c) how there's still a large, viable market for this product,
(d) how this product, despite being basically an upgraded ten
year old design was WAY ahead of its time in 1985 and in many
respects is STILL ahead of its time today, (e) that there are not only
many of us who would buy new Amigas but there are MANY people out
there right now this minute with cash-in-hand who don't own them
and want to buy them, and (f) that there ARE many developers who
are capable of producing astounding software who have taken a
wait-and-see attitude over the last year, who will come back to
the Amiga if and when machines hit the stores again.
Suggest that Escom put on a North American and European developers'
conference. I think this is incredibly important. Amongst the stuff
they now own should be all the assets of CATS which would contain
all the previous DevCon records, notes, etc., so the history of
these things is not lost in the sands of time.
But above all, be nice. Make it sound firm, but polite and
professional.
Harv
h...@cup.portal.com
From: jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu (JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI))
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/04
Message-ID: <1995May4.143509.14644@ivax>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 101988065
references: <1995May1.220435.14568@ivax> <3o4tvh$ha5@news.cais.com>
<3o8e52$92o@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
In article <3o8e52$...@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, kir...@cc.umanitoba.ca
(Evan Kirchhoff) writes:
> In article <3o4tvh$...@news.cais.com> swmpt...@cais2.cais.com (Swampthing)
writes:
>>On the other hand, it could also very easily cause the opposite effect.
>>Although mass form letter mailings are becoming rather trite these days,
>>the new owners could get the impression they've inherited a bunch of
>>obsessive fanatics on their hands and opt to cut us out just like
>>Commodore.
Well, one of the reasons for writing such a mass letter is to get Escom to let
us know where they really stand. If they "cut us out," that's a pretty strong
sign of where they stand, eh?
I've been saying for days now that Escom doesn't know what it's gotten itself
into. If a mass mailing like this convinces them to sell the Amiga technology
to CEI or Digital Arts or Scala or whatever, hey, mission accomplished.
> I think the psychoanalysis is getting out of hand here. Escom will make
> whatever they think they can sell, and _any_ pro-Amiga letters, no matter
> what they say, will presumably help to convince them that some kind of
> market still exists, is worth advertising to, etc.
Precisely my point.
I'm trying to point out to Escom what a powerful force the Amiga community can
be. I want them to say "Hey look, 6000 letters in two days, all in English.
Maybe we ought to work with such a group instead of against them."
And if they don't agree, fuck 'em. We've gone through this before with
Commodore, we're gonna be dedicated fans no matter what the company wants, and
if the company doesn't like it, well, I guess the company loses out.
> I can't see a large multinational corporation saying, "Gee, we've got
> 5000 letters here from people who want to buy this product, but these
> people sound 'silly', so I don't think we want to sell them anything..."
> Commodore should have welcomed "fanaticism", and encouraged it. Apple
> certainly used to, and probably still does.
I'm also trying to subtly remind Escom what not to do. The only reason they
have the Amiga now is because Commodore fucked up. They need to know what
mistakes not to make.
>
> --
> Evan Kirchhoff, kir...@cc.umanitoba.ca
--
Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have several such print+send "just add
water" letters here on the newsgroup: a short, brief, "We support you" letter,
a somewhat longer letter saying "Why don't you make a detached-keyboard A1200",
the one I wrote, and of course, a short "You suck" letter, because there's
gonna be someone who will want it. Perhaps we should coordinate the mailing so
it all arrives in one gigantic lump. It'll be "Amiga Fan Day" at Escom's
offices! :-)
Keep the suggestions coming. Feel perfectly free to repost my letter with your
own corrections here on the newsgroup, let's get a collection of them going, so
when you feel like writing, you'll have several options! :-)
| http://www.columbus.iupui.edu/~jrshepar | IUPU Columbus, Indiana |
|John Shepard jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu I wanna go to a real school someday! |
| Internet is too important to be taken seriously. | Artist, writer, net.loon |
| Amiga owner & Sarah McLachlan fan: God help me! |in the making. Finger me &|
|"Enrich the soil, no soul no soul" Sarah McLachlan| tell me that you love me.|
From: j...@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/06
Message-ID: <3of9kk$b0t@news2.delphi.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 102102941
references: <1995May1.220223.14567@ivax>
organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
x-newsreader-author: lwil...@BIX.com (Loren Wilton)
reply-to: j...@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
In article <138...@cup.portal.com>, H...@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) wrote:
>John... without back-quoting a dozen articles here, I would *strongly*
>suggest that you study JDow's response to your proposed letter. It's
>almost exactly what I would have suggested to you had I not seen her
>reply first.
>
>I urge you not to take a "Hey Escom. Listen Up. You MUST do this.
>You MUST do that" approach. Corporate officers and mgrs do not
>respond well to rabid fervor-laden demands, no matter how good
>the writers' intentions are. Please be reasoned and sound
>less demanding. We want them to know (a) what they now own,
>(b) how many of us are fans of this product and use it daily,
>(c) how there's still a large, viable market for this product,
>(d) how this product, despite being basically an upgraded ten
>year old design was WAY ahead of its time in 1985 and in many
>respects is STILL ahead of its time today, (e) that there are not only
>many of us who would buy new Amigas but there are MANY people out
>there right now this minute with cash-in-hand who don't own them
>and want to buy them, and (f) that there ARE many developers who
>are capable of producing astounding software who have taken a
>wait-and-see attitude over the last year, who will come back to
>the Amiga if and when machines hit the stores again.
>
>Suggest that Escom put on a North American and European developers'
>conference. I think this is incredibly important. Amongst the stuff
>they now own should be all the assets of CATS which would contain
>all the previous DevCon records, notes, etc., so the history of
>these things is not lost in the sands of time.
>
>But above all, be nice. Make it sound firm, but polite and
>professional.
>
>Harv
>h...@cup.portal.com
I can only hope these kids listen to you, Harv. After 27 years in the
electronics industry one thing I know is that you are absolutely right in
regards corporate management type people, particularly CEOs and owners. The
*BEST* thing you could do with letters is write to the marketing department and
tell them that you'd plunk down hard cash for <whatever>. Make it short. Make it
too the point. Make it *P*O*L*I*T*E*. Make it literate. (For Ghu's sake check
the spelling and grammer.) One page large print double spaced should be more
than enough. Avoid long diatribes at all costs.
{^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX
j...@bix.com The Wizardess
(Who gets to call most of the "kids" on the net "kids" 'cause she has
earned the right by living long enough. {^_-} )
From: j...@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
Subject: Re: A prototype print+send letter to ESCOM
Date: 1995/05/06
Message-ID: <3of9ll$b0t@news2.delphi.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 102102943
references: <1995May1.220435.14568@ivax> <3o4tvh$ha5@news.cais.com>
<3o8e52$92o@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <1995May4.143509.14644@ivax>
organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
x-newsreader-author: lwil...@BIX.com (Loren Wilton)
reply-to: j...@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
In article <1995May4.143509.14644@ivax>,
jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu (JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI)) wrote:
>In article <3o8e52$...@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, kir...@cc.umanitoba.ca
(Evan Kirchhoff) writes:
>> In article <3o4tvh$...@news.cais.com> swmpt...@cais2.cais.com (Swampthing)
writes:
>>>On the other hand, it could also very easily cause the opposite effect.
>>>Although mass form letter mailings are becoming rather trite these days,
>>>the new owners could get the impression they've inherited a bunch of
>>>obsessive fanatics on their hands and opt to cut us out just like
>>>Commodore.
>
>Well, one of the reasons for writing such a mass letter is to get Escom to let
>us know where they really stand. If they "cut us out," that's a pretty strong
>sign of where they stand, eh?
>
>I've been saying for days now that Escom doesn't know what it's gotten itself
>into. If a mass mailing like this convinces them to sell the Amiga technology
>to CEI or Digital Arts or Scala or whatever, hey, mission accomplished.
>
>> I think the psychoanalysis is getting out of hand here. Escom will make
>> whatever they think they can sell, and _any_ pro-Amiga letters, no matter
>> what they say, will presumably help to convince them that some kind of
>> market still exists, is worth advertising to, etc.
>
>Precisely my point.
>
>I'm trying to point out to Escom what a powerful force the Amiga community can
>be. I want them to say "Hey look, 6000 letters in two days, all in English.
>Maybe we ought to work with such a group instead of against them."
>
>And if they don't agree, fuck 'em. We've gone through this before with
>Commodore, we're gonna be dedicated fans no matter what the company wants, and
>if the company doesn't like it, well, I guess the company loses out.
>
>> I can't see a large multinational corporation saying, "Gee, we've got
>> 5000 letters here from people who want to buy this product, but these
>> people sound 'silly', so I don't think we want to sell them anything..."
>> Commodore should have welcomed "fanaticism", and encouraged it. Apple
>> certainly used to, and probably still does.
>
>I'm also trying to subtly remind Escom what not to do. The only reason they
>have the Amiga now is because Commodore fucked up. They need to know what
>mistakes not to make.
>
>>
>> --
>> Evan Kirchhoff, kir...@cc.umanitoba.ca
>--
>
>Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have several such print+send "just add
>water" letters here on the newsgroup: a short, brief, "We support you" letter,
>a somewhat longer letter saying "Why don't you make a detached-keyboard A1200",
>the one I wrote, and of course, a short "You suck" letter, because there's
>gonna be someone who will want it. Perhaps we should coordinate the mailing so
>it all arrives in one gigantic lump. It'll be "Amiga Fan Day" at Escom's
>offices! :-)
>
>Keep the suggestions coming. Feel perfectly free to repost my letter with your
>own corrections here on the newsgroup, let's get a collection of them going, so
>when you feel like writing, you'll have several options! :-)
>
>| http://www.columbus.iupui.edu/~jrshepar | IUPU Columbus, Indiana |
>|John Shepard jrshe...@indyvax.iupui.edu I wanna go to a real school someday! |
>| Internet is too important to be taken seriously. | Artist, writer, net.loon |
>| Amiga owner & Sarah McLachlan fan: God help me! |in the making. Finger me &|
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John, this is *PRECISELY* the wrong attitude to take when writing a letter to
corporate management. Such dippy nonsense could turn them off the Amiga so
thoroughly we'd never see *ANYTHING* released even for license to other
companies for production at their expense. Please engage your head before your
emotions when you write such letters.
{^_^} Joanne Dow, j...@bix.com The Wizardess