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- Message-ID: <NOTABENE%92083020464147@TAUNIVM>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 13:46:00 EDT
- Sender: Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM>
- From: Peter Parisi <PXP8@PSUVM>
- Subject: RE: alleged arrivals
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
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- The central point of my recent "fume" over documentation was that it remains
- unclear to me whether anyone really has received NB4. The cries of triumph
- registering on this list in recent weeks describe a product that could as
- easily be a belated beta version as NB4.
-
- So: has anyone received the real, the ultimate, the in-the-meantime-final
- thing? Should we start a pool? A prize for the first bonafide recipient?
- But more to the point, have the excuses and prevarications from NBI ended?
-
- It was most disturbing over the summer to see the reason for delay shift
- from documentation (which sounded like a reasonable last step) to bugs in
- the software (which one would have hoped had been stamped out in the earlier
- development process). So uncertainty aggravates my excitement that the
- arrival of NB4 *may* be imminent. I am more unclear than ever about the
- status of the update.
-
- One other side concern: Is NBI making any noticable sales effort for NB4?
- There used to be a discounter in NYC that listed NB among its software. No
- more. The review in a pc mag early in the summer was heartening.
- Meanwhile, though, I've seen no ads. Strained as the company is, one
- wonders (sympathetically) how it can manage to *sell* the product it is
- having so much trouble producing. This issue won't affect most of us
- confirmed NB users immediately. But it could bear on the future of tech
- support and further (dare I even raise the possibility?)updates.
-
- Lastly adefense of the sort of note this is: certainly this list exists
- primarily (and successfully) to provide technical support. But we cannot
- reasonably have apple recipes (life's little pleasures) and not cries of
- frustration. Discussion of NBI's practices as a business entity seems a
- reasonable extension of these humane concerns. For those impatient with any
- particular category of message, the subject line does seem a workable
- screening device.
-
- Peter Parisi
-