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- From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
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- Subject: Re: NO Product support. BOYCOTT?
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- Date: 14 Dec 92 20:13:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.124541.1@ualr.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec14.124541.1@ualr.edu> djlewis@ualr.edu writes:
- > I feel that any vendor that sells their product without the information
- >(address/phone) included is probably not intending to support the product and
- >may be a "Fly By Night" company just out for the quick cash.
-
- Of course you may also find that companies not printing their addresses
- are not "fly by night" but just have addresses in Taiwan with no US
- representation. That makes the address more or less useless to most US
- users, and they probably also omit it based on "Buy American" chauvanism
- that they seek to avoid.
-