From: thester@nyx.cs.du.edu (Uncle Fester)
Newsgroups: nyx.misc,du.general,co.general
Subject: Re: FYI - USWest wasting our money again
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:04:55 GMT
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In article <1992Sep14.153459.15180@mercury.cair.du.edu> jvilhube@diana.ca
r.du.edu (Jan Vilhuber) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.023911.29729@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> thester@nyx.cs.d
.edu (Uncle Fester) writes:
>>Well, if US West (insert favorite entity here) can't get a press releas

>>out with all of the facts straight, then _they_ are the ones at fault.
>
>Speaking of getting facts straight.. weren't *you* the one who equated
>US WEST with _government_? I'm not sure I understood correctly,
>but I think you also said we were wasting your money. Point A) We are no

>a gvernment agency. Point B) We are not wasting your money, since THAT
>goes to US WEST COMM, and, as I said, they had nothing to do with this.
>
>>I read the story in the RMN and I also heard two different stories abou

>>it on local television.  They all said pretty much the same thing.
>And we all know how well the media covers computer related issues. All o

>a sudden you trust them?
>
>>And don't take the term 'pinhead' so personal, unless you somehow had a
>>hand in this joke.  Some of my best friends work for the phone co.  :-)
>>
>And You still didn't get it. The Phone company is PART od US WEST. The d
vision
>that came up with this scam (as you like to call it), is NOT the phone C
mpany.
>It was actually US WEST direct/MRG, which is NOT COMM.
>And no, I didn't personally help design or program this. But I did help
>the guys out with computer related problems and my boss was involved. I 
>know most of the people involved. A lot of them are not very computer li
erate,
>but those are not the people making the decision OR programming.
>THOSE are literate and know what they are doing.
>
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> Jan Vilhuber            | Internet: jvilhube@du.edu or jvilhube@[130.25
.1.4]
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>--------------------------------------------------


Okay Jan.  Whatever you say.
I only _compared_ US West to the government.  Never said they were the
same.  They just have the sam bureaucratic types that buy $600 toilet seat
covers.  That's what I said.
And they (US West) are indeed wasting my money.  It's a waste of money
whenever you don't use the proper technology.  I am typing this message
through a technology (Internet) that has capabilities far beyond what was
displayed by the proposed system US West desires.  You can type until your
fingers fall of about the differences between US West (X) and US West (Y).
It still doesn't change the fact that the system is shoddy by current
standards.  By 'current standards' I don't mean cutting edge still in
development stuff either.  I mean recent and available.  
Give me a break.  How about you post some REAL info about the system and
prove to us that it's _not_ a dog.
Until then, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....you know the
rest.  Prove us wrong and I will be eating my words here for all to see.

Uncle Fester
(quack,quack,quack,quack,quack...it keeps going and going and going...)

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