From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacIntercomm?
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:20:00 EDT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <Conrad_Nobili-061092215238@nobili.harvard.edu>, Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
>
>  I am not so clueless.  I can read and understand disclaimers.  I just
> thought the situation amusing, that you, as a Hayes *engineer* were upset
> at the claims against your product

You still don't quite get it. The disclaimer attempts to emphasize the 
disassociation of the opinions of an individual from an organization.

If I were to quit Hayes tommorrow, my opinions wouldn't really change. They
are my opinions. What you read on the net is my opinion, because my employer
pays me to write and test software, not to have opinions. (Read the disclaimer)

> Hey, I think the notion of a Trashed Interrupts by Executing Menus Bomb
> just as amusing as I find the TIES Bomb situation.  I also find Hayes' new
> scheme for numbering its press releases particularly amusing.  In the case
> of Hayes, I find the ads and the press releases a bit offensive.  

Fine. These things have nothing to do with me, my posting or my opinion.
Your message associating them with my complaint is non sequitur. If you really
want to complain about these things, I've given you the means to do so. 

> In the case of the person who posted about MacIntercomm here I have no such
> reaction.  

I obviously do.

> I guess I have different standards for corporate behaviour and
> individual posts to the wild and unruly net.  I was expressing that I would
> make an exception to my corporate behaviour standards if the MacIntercomm
> publishers decided to pick on Smartcomm specifically.  

Is Jay a MacIntercomm publisher? I thought he was just an excited individual.
If he is the publisher, then he ought to know better than to make claims
such as "all other comm software crashes when you try to do anything". That
would really get me incensed.

Jay was overstating the case of MacIntercomm. I wanted to set the record
straight. Just the facts, not hype. I feel this is a constructive, not
destructive action. I see no association with the TIES campaign.

> I reserve the right to be arbitrary in the way I derive pleasure from 
> ironies and the pain of others....

That right may land you in several kill files.

> As for serial communications programs, I really don't care about (or for)
> any of them.  I prefer the flexibility of establishing dial-up *network*
> connections.  I will probably never use either SmartComm or MacIntercomm....

Then why did you bother to reply to me? It would appear that you had little to
add to the discussion.

The Apple guys often get socked with this blanket flaming of their employer.
It doesn't happen often to me, but I don't like it one bit. I can see why it
drives them off the net.

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