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- From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: WB2.04 distribution solution
- Message-ID: <33244@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:25:21 GMT
- References: <50.2a6a4876@ivgate< <33138@cbmvax.commodore.com< <54577@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
- Organization: Commodore-Amiga, Inc. West Chester, PA.
- Lines: 47
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- In article <54577@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> tna@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Trevor Andrews) writes:
- >In article <33138@cbmvax.commodore.com< peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
- ><suggestions@cbmvax.commodore.COM is not an opinion survey. Flooding it
- ><with requests does nothing to increase the likelihood of any solution,
- ><nor does it endear you to the person who has to sort and classify incoming
- ><bugs and suggestions. One report is quite adequate, thank you.
- ><
- ><If we were interested in setting up some contact point where "everyone
- ><on the net" could be encouraged to contact with the same request,
- ><we'd have set up a 900-number.
- >
- > So, I get the impression cbm doesn't care what their customers
- > want...
-
- I believe I've been misunderstood. Hopefully my smiley wasn't
- misunderstood, but I did note that you did separate it from the quote.
- I saw your smiley too, but I still sense that some thoughts got lost in
- communication.
-
- We try hard to be responsive to customers and developers within
- the means at our disposal. Most of the employees you see on Usenet
- do not have an official support function. We're generally the ones
- who bring you the new software and hardware. Developer support
- is normally done through CATS (some of whom you may see here on the
- net), but Randell, Mike, DaveH, myself, and others are engineers,
- not CATSen. CATS concentrates on support for registered developers.
- The prime electronic contact point for North American developers
- is BIX. For European and Australian developers, an extensive developer
- network has been built around Unix machines.
-
- There is quite a bit of support for non-registered developers. The
- official support includes writing the RKMs, publishing AmigaMail, making
- the Native Developer's Update and Software Toolkit available to anyone
- who wants to order, etc. Electronic support for non-registered developers
- is ad-hoc but our presence is strong, as has been remarked frequently.
-
- We try to be responsive. The fact that I implore you to not flood
- suggestions@cbmvax with a hundred or a thousand requests for an
- FTP site or whatever other request is not an example of non-responsiveness.
- Responsiveness is actually improved by not abusing the existing channels.
-
- Peter
- --
- Peter Cherna, Operating Systems Development Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!peter peter@cbmvax.commodore.com
- My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer.
- "No guts, no glory."
-