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- From: BORMANN@vm.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Bormann)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: IBM Pennant Systems survey
- Message-ID: <168548189.BORMANN@vm.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:12:39 GMT
- References: <199208281156.AA08401@claude.cs.umb.edu>
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- In article <199208281156.AA08401@claude.cs.umb.edu>
- karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) writes:
-
- >
- >Some of you may have seen the survey request from IBM,
- >where they want us to send them documents. I asked them
- >what they would actually use the documents for. After about
- >a week, someone finally responded with what is below,
- >telling me in effect that they won't tell me.
- >
- >I urge people not to cooperate with this survey.
- >
- >karl@cs.umb.edu
-
- I received this survey and, after looking it over, floated it into
- the trashcan. My impression: a vague request for information that was
- going to be time-consuming to acquire and of no benefit to my
- organization. My second impression was that this was the first survey
- ever written by the author.
-
- BTW, we run TeX on an IBM 3090-180E system.
-
- Bill Bormann
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