From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
Date: 17 Aug 92 02:28:49 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.

In article <34297@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>In article <1992Aug15.215531.3574@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes:
>>	Yeah - not just for usenet - but for the Amiga in general. In
>>a sense, this is what PR firms are supposed to do.  Just post some
>>info whenever something that will "look bad" happens.
>
>Sounds too 'Big Brother' for my tastes.

	How ? The BIG brother implication is that info be supressed or
altered. I am just saying that is it incumbent on C= to spend a bit of
time on PR.

>>	"There is a radical new Amiga due out soon"
>
>Then don't listen.  Oh, I forgot.  Your complaint is _also_
>that C= doesn't communicate enough.

	You got it. All I want is some simple truth from C=. "We are
working on something that will do this, and might have it by then".

>I don't read the National Enquirer, either.   Its the basically
>the same thing.  If you want to read it, feel free. If you
>want to write letters to it, challenging each and ever article,
>also feel free.  However, innuendos that to not read the
>National Enquirer is to bury your head in the sand...be serious.

	The problem is that from the C= perspective it is NOT the same
thing. They have a definate profit motiv to do some PR for the Amiga.

>>	Hmm.. too bad. Have they put this to rest on BIX ?
>
>Once again, I don't work for C=.  Is there some other way I need to
>phrase this so you'd actually understand the concept ?

	No - I take your word for it. But your implication that we
don't get info on Usenet because it is not "official" made me think
that BIX (being official) had the info we want.

>>	Hmm.. you mean that saying that it would be helpful to get official
>>info is a federal offense ?
>
>Real cool, Ken.  Delete the part of your message where you threaten
>something like 'if I can't get the info I want from C= I'll just have to get
>it any way I can'.

	I threatened no such thing and you know it. I mentioned that
in a data vaccum like the one C= has created, many will have to make
decisions based on the info they have.

>
>Which is different from what you are saying now.  I agree, official
>information is good.  Broad strategy annoucements are good.  Announcing
>new machines 6 months before release...well, that might not be so
>good. 

	Sure it would. It would do a world of good for C= and for us.

>
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>
>I've always wondered.  Do you have an actual connection to
>Ted Nelson ?

	Who is he ?




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