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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Frustrated with SGI support..
- Message-ID: <ufc2aps@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:12:05 GMT
- References: <34842@adm.brl.mil> <1992Dec31.121923.27476@bernina.ethz.ch> <1993Jan4.135133.29053@erenj.com>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 39
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- In <1993Jan4.135133.29053@erenj.com> srfergu@rufus.erenj.com (Scott Ferguson) writes:
-
- | In article <1992Dec31.121923.27476@bernina.ethz.ch>, hoesel@igc.ethz.ch (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
- | |> The support of SGI can be very good at times. The best support comes
- | |> from the net and all the fine people working at SGI (I think without
- | |> it, I *would* get frustrated, but it is a good thing that SGI
- | |> employers are allowed to take the time to answer the questions on the
- | |> net. If the questions asked are specific enough, the answers are
- | |> to the point, correct, and up to date.
- | |>
- | |> Reading the news and making notes of the messages has been proven very
- | |> helpful to me.
- | |>
- |
- | Shhhhh, you folks! If we don't keep quiet about this unauthorized help, SGI's
- | management will catch on sooner or later, and assign their hotline people
- | to answer questions on the net too, so you can get the high quality help
- | you're accustomed to on the phone line!!! :-)
-
- SGI management (at all levels, as far as I can tell), is *quite* aware
- of how much our customers use comp.sys.sgi, etc. for help, and how much
- the appreciate it (as are most of the folks in customer support).
-
- In fact, management at SGI encourages us to answer questions on the
- net (except when we get carried away about leaking unannounced
- product info!), even if our responses are sometimes negative about
- some aspect of the company.
-
- You may have noticed that there are in fact at least a few customer
- support people who answer questions in comp.sys.sgi and other places
- (not officially, but on their own time).
-
- I know the followup had a smiley, but since there are companies that
- strongly discourage their employees from answering questions on the
- net, I though it was worth following up.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
-