On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, JC Dill wrote:
On 06:45 PM 6/20/02, measl@mfn.org wrote:
I work goddamn hard keeping my corner crispy white, but the crispy whites are invisible when it comes to sales time.
Perhaps you should help the sales department position this important data in their marketing literature and sales pitches. Tout the advantages of doing business with a crispy white hat, how it improves the reliability of one's Internet connection and services, etc. You can't blame the Internet community for not knowing about your "secret efforts" to stay crispy white if you keep those efforts secret!
There is no secret here. Our stance is in all the literature, in the AUP/TOS/etc. However, as I have pointed out, when it comes time to buy, nobody I have seen says "hrm: they're white-hat, that decides it" whereas I *have* had prospects send me humongous emails telling how they will "never" buy any service from us because they received an email from one of my downstream customers (maybe 4 times removed...). The anti-spammers need to put up or shut up. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------