Re: Ascend Max-Up program E-mail correction (fwd)

Brian Moore (bem@cmc.net)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 18:31:03 -0800 (PST)

> Geez. Look at this. Not only did I NOT receive the email, and not only are
> they correcting a mistake, but they misspelled a word. Can you guess which
> one? And dont tell me this is off-topic. It is to show you the stupidity
> of the competitor.
>
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> Jake Messinger 713-772-6690 jake@ams.com
> Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. 800-324-8594 jake@uh.edu
> Houston, Texas http://www.ams.com/~jake
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> (Don't steal my squigglies)
>
I phoned them a complaint. I got two.

I mailed a complaint to postmaster at thehost.com, which is the originator of
the email, and mailed back a complaint to Mr Potts about this. Sorry, Ascend,
the fact that you'd a) send unsolicited email [you know, I'd toast your account
in an instant if you were one of my users?] to a list you b) effectively stole
from Livingston using c) a forged email address speaks much about your company.

Price on products aint Everything. Livingston provides good products (hey,
their routers ain't Cisco's, but they work and cost a lot less), good free
support (this list is an example of it... the fact that Ascend stole it shows
they know that) and are trustworthy people. I don't care if their special deal
is somehow better or not than the PM-3... I won't buy it. (And in a month or
so when we expand one of our POPs, I will buy a PM-3.)

Idiot sales wanks.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:19:43 +0000
> From: B_Potts@msn.com
> To: jake@ams.com
> Subject: Ascend Max-Up program E-mail correction
>
> Earlier today, you received an e-mail from Ascend Communications regarding
> a special program. Do to a translation problem with our mail server, the
> e-mail address was converted incorrectly. The correct email address is
> B_Potts@msn.com
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>