Re: PM-3 and T-1 (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:40:46 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Richard Hodges shaped the electrons to say...
>Are you shipping to (non-beta) Internet Service Providers?
>That is a YES or NO question. Please answer YES or NO!

Yes.

>You believe... Please answer (yes or no), is the strike causing
>your delay?

Did it cause the halt? No. Is it causing some slowdown in shipping now?
Yes, a bit.

>You still have not answered why we are waiting...

How many times do we have to say there was a compatibility problem that
caused the shipping halt? Have you missed the other posts? Shipping the
hardware when the state of the software was unknown was seen as pointless.
We'd have people shoving cards into chassis with no code to run them. Don't
think so? Even beta sites did it, despite a note in the boxes saying not to.
So we kept building the hardware.

Now that we have confidence in the code and 3.7 is going through final checks
we let the cards out the door again. It takes couple of days for cards to
reach users, so we have some time to get the code out.

>I can only guess that someone made a *REALLY STUPID* mistake in
>engineering, and you are scare shitless that someone will find out.

Never assume.

>Yes, I am calling you a LIAR. The modems are NOT shipping, and you

Now you've gone too far. SCREW YOU! They are shipping. So get stuffed.
Calling someone a liar when you have your head on backwards. I don't
think we handled the delay well, we should have said something. But I
don't tolerate crap like this.

>our teeth and wait... You do want our respect, don't you?

Yours? Personally I don't are about it any more after your statements.

Don't start calling people liars when you don't have a clue what you are
talking about.

-MZ

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