jas@proteon.com (John A. Shriver) (07/26/90)
The Proteon marketing department would like to provide the readers of this mailing list/newsgroup with information about new Proteon products as they are announced. Rather than arbitrarily start doing this, the marketing department wants me to ask the readership of the list (you) for your opinions on this, and what you would want to see. (They don't want to be seen as excessively commercial or brash in doing this. It should be useful support for you.) The releases that marketing will send will not just be our canned press releases. These contain much boiler-plate that you would not be interested in. (You already know who Proteon is...) Instead, they will be more succinct descriptions of the new product or software release, focusing on functional features. They will also focus on product, other informational press releases won't be sent. There are several classes of announcements that can be sent: 1. Internetworking Products (p4100, p4200, ProNET-80, FDDI) 2. PC LAN products (ProNET-4, ProNET-10) 3. Network Management Products (OverVIEW, TokenVIEW) 4. New software releases I don't know what the areas of interest of the readers of this list are, so please reply to me DIRECTLY (jas@proteon.com) and let me know what categories you do and do not want to see. Since the info-proteon and p4200 lists have been merged, I suspect there will be interest in all of them. Any other comments on announcements are welcome.
Gene.Hastings@BOOLE.ECE.CMU.EDU (07/27/90)
I am interested in seeing the earliest possible announcement of new and revised products. If the consensus of this list is to reject formal announcements, please add me to a list which receives them. Thanks, Gene
MAC@PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Michael A. Contino 814.863.0859") (07/31/90)
I would like to see any Proteon product announcement posted to the list.
swb@DAINICHI.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Scott Brim) (07/31/90)
Hi. This list isn't just about token rings or routing in general, it's about Proteon products and how to use them, so my opinion is that (unlike e.g. TCP-IP) any solid product information which Proteon wants to contribute should be gratefully accepted. Frankly I personally would be glad to see prices posted too(!), but we should keep job ads off. By the way, the p4200 list has had its base machine magically changed under it and it's now running on a BSD Reno base. There are some problems with paths and protections that I haven't had time to chase down, but for the last few days there have been problems with the Archiver, so recent messages haven't been stored. Sorry. I'll get to it very soon. Scott p4200-request@devvax.tn.cornell.edu