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

Colin Ryan (drop@lglobal.com)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 23:39:27 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Brian Moore wrote:

Besides isn't this "upgrade opportunity" simply an opportunity
to clear the shelves of not quite right 4000 Series for the 4002 and
beyond?

Ship a PM-3 please!!

> > 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.
> >
> > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~
> > 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
> > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~
> >
> > (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.
> >
>
>

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