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(ASCEND) Re: Paper vs bits (was "Unix vs. NT")

        Paul M. Newhouse wrote:

>A formal printed snail-mail letter will get more attention than e-mail.

        What?  You mean you think we should throw highly processed
        compressed dead trees that have been bleached, then painted 
        with toxic chemicals at a vendor of equipment whose sole
        function is to eliminate the need for such things?  You want 
        us to ask a number of government employees to burn fossil 
        fuels to transport these dead trees across the countryside?

        This will get more attention?  Well, so would a brick through
        a window, but both seem more than a tad gauche.

>Thousands of them from ISP's will get more attention.

        Say it ain't so, Ascend!  Tell us that the executive committee
        at least gets a summary report of the "market intelligence"
        gleaned from this mailing list.  Tell us that the VP of Engineering
        has someone reading each and every message.

>At the next ISPcon set up a booth (or at your booth ... or at some
>sympathetic to your cause booth) and have a pre-printed letter available

        Now you want us to burn fossil fuels to ship OURSELVES across 
        the country, and then ALSO send the compressed dead tress?
        Aw, come on - if we really wanted to catch Ascend's attention,
        there would be a march from ISPcon to Ascend's corporate
        headquarters.  (What's your best 5 km time?)  

>Will this change anything?  Don't hold your breath.  Even if it does, it won't
>be real soon.

        The vendor that ignores the customer (especially the leading-edge,
        lunatic fringe, rabid critics of even the slightest faux pas like
        many of us on this list)  does so at their own peril.

 Rather than "carpe diem", on the Internet, once is wise to "carpe PM"

james fischer                                jfischer@supercollider.com

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