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From: dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: modem info (call waiting) (mild flame)
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 06:59:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 06:59:42 1985
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> > Q: Is there a modem compatible with call-waiting?
> 
> It's really funny to see all the people from AT&T replying to this.
> Why didn't you guys design the "feature" so it could be turned off?

Awwww, come on, give those AT&T people a break!

Weren't you ever in a social setting (a party, perhaps), and
someone asks you what you do for a living, and you answer
you're "in computers," and then they start asking all kinds
of questions about their Commodore 64 or some such nonsense,
and end up blaming you for their problems with the machine?

That's roughly analogous to what you're doing when you "blame"
the AT&T people who took the trouble to make a thoughtful reply
to the call waiting question. Unlike Sun, AT&T is a rather large
company, and the chances are EXTREMELY remote that these AT&T
people had ANYTHING to do with the design or the implementation
of Call Waiting and the other Custom Callling stuff. They
probably agree with your criticism of it, in fact.

So please don't flame 'em!

In fact, I was at a party the other day and got "blamed" for
something that was published in TIME, and I have nothing
more than to do with what gets published therein than you do.
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