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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: Does IBM have an Internet email address?
- Message-ID: <930105192846@rgam.sc.ti.com>
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- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
- References: <C0Do0D.3Kn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan05.161041.31200@watson.ibm.com> <8329@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:28:46 GMT
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- In article <8329@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- >> In article <1993Jan05.161041.31200@watson.ibm.com> cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler) writes:
- >> >Append it here. These newsgroups are shadowed inside IBM, and most good ideas
- >> >are passed along to development (especially if we want them ourselves <g>).
- >>
- >> Amen. I've gotten responses from inside IBM to posts I've made here, and all
- >> evidence is that IBM is very interested in what we on Usenet have to say - and
- >> that explicitly includes upper management in the OS/2 shop.
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- Ditto. I made an anonymous post concerning management issues (here not IBM).
- John Soyring, or someone acting for him, forwarded the post to the local IBMer
- responsible for OS/2 market penetration, who then figured out that it was me,
- called me and discussed the problem at length. IMPRESSIVE response.
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- >> (BTW, when an IBMer says "append", Usenetters can read "post" - IBM's internal
- >> conferencing system uses "append" instead.)
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- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
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