garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) (10/22/89)
>This note is an apology to the people of HP and related about my recent >survey of "HP people declared 'excess'". I have discussed the matter >with HP Corporate Public Relations and am chagrined to admit that there >are some significant factual errors in the original posting. > If you would rather not read about it here in >this forum, but are interested, drop me a note to ensure I email you a >copy; I might well decide not to further clutter this group with more >inappropriate postings. I for one, appreciate Dave's efforts in this group (comp.sys.hp). If he feels like posting/discussing HP's Excess program... then he should. It IS A VERY IMPORTANT topic for all of us related to HP (even if we only own $250,000 worth of their HW/SW, like me (my company actually)). Have you noticed how many important topics/facts/etc Dave contributes? If you don't feel it's particularly relavent, don't read it (I skip any discussion of HP calculators that appears here, I don't begrudge the posters the net bandwidth they use however). Dave is a very important contributor to the net (Guess who authored the elm mailer?). As such he deserves a little more respect than to be flamed. I hope others will show their support, send mail to Dave, letting him know you appreciate his efforts and contributions to this group, and to not let one unhappy individual disuade Dave from contributing every thing he can to this group. This is a forum of adults (I hope), a little consideration, and tolerance goes a long way towards making this group useful to all. No, I don't know Dave. I sent him a message after seeing his many valuable postings... asking who he was... since I didn't know at the time. -- Joe Garvey UUCP: {uunet,backbone}!amdahl!pyramid!mips!cmic!garvey California Microwave Internet: {ames}!mips!cmic!garvey 990 Almanor Ave Sunnyvale, Ca, 94086 408-720-6439 (let it ring) We just appeared in the maps. If your site is up to date, we're there.