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- From: donn@dellunix.dell.com (Donn Baumgartner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: >>An example of Dell's product support (Esix here I come...)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.081416.27107@dellunix.dell.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 08:14:16 GMT
- References: <fluet.711428210@ee.ualberta.ca> <BrKM6r.656@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Jul18.142650.24227@virtech.uucp>
- Organization: DELL Computer --UNIX Software Development Group-- Austin, Texas
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- Conor Cahill writes:
- jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes:
- >In article <fluet.711428210@ee.ualberta.ca> fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet) writes:
-
- [postscript aftermath deleted for brevity]
-
- > I have to agree that Donn is no doubt acting as a poor
- >representative of what is likely a fine product as illustrated in his
- >prior posts. The up side is that if he keeps this up for long he may
- >end up in the doghouse. The down side is that he may end up demoted....
- >to technical support. "What do you mean your boot floppy won't boot?
- >Dell does not produce that floppy disk! Your complaint is unjustified."
-
- Actually, I think Terry has a pretty good sense of humor. But once again
- I have to claim that I represent *me* here unless I otherwise state. If
- you want 'official' Dell stuff, send mail to support@dell.com... stuff you
- read here is not official (this is Usenet, folks).
-
- [more deleted]
-
- >Under those conditions, I see nothing wrong with them just saying that
- >it isn't their hardware the first time you call. However, in this
- >case that isn't the problem. Stan Brown even said that they had tried
- >to help him but weren't able to resolve the problem. To me, it sounds like
- >Stan was mad that they didn't send an engineer out to his office to diagnose
- >and solve the problem.
-
- Funny... this is *exactly* how I interpreted this situation.
-
- >Donn stated (albeit a bit harshly) that they (dell) can't be held
- >responsible for a hardware setup that they explicitly said they don't support.
-
- Was I too harsh? Sorry. Honestly. Some net-antics piss me off more
- than others - this one positively rips me because of its false pretenses.
- Nonetheless, I'm sorry for the harshness of the posting...
-
- >The real "example of Dell's product support" is in the stableness of the
- >SVR4 that they deliver.
-
- Thank you. What was it the Wizard of Oz said...? Oh yeah... "ignore the
- man behind the curtain..."
- - Donn
-