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From: garths@pro-xy.UUCP (Garth Shultz)
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Subject: Re: CMS60 drives
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Date: 18 Aug 89 03:41:14 GMT
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Reply to Scott James Klafke:

> Call CMS to get a RMA number, sounds easy enough, right? No. They wouldn't
> give me one over the phone and they told me that any authorized CMS dealer
> would give me one. No  dice. The authorized ones said that they would only
> help me if I bought it  there, so I had to call the place in Georgia where
> I bought it (I live in  WI).  They said I would have to mail it to them.

Welcome to the "Mendicants And Supporters Of Cms Hard drives, Inc., Society 
of Mavens."  (M.A.S.O.C.H.I.S.M.)  Our society requires that:  a) you must 
have spent several dollars making phone calls to get RMA numbers, and  b) be 
inconvenienced by the machinations... preferably losing some valuable data 
from your hard drive, and  c) become acquainted with the UPS desk persons on 
a first name basis...

The charter members of M.A.S.O.C.H.I.S.M. (I and jlink@pro-xy) have 
liberalized the original criteria--from having to return a CMS hard drive 
(although _that_ action advances you, automatically, to the 23rd degree 
status) to others who have had similar experiences.  Our more liberal 
membership rules extend to other individuals who have had to suffer through 
weeks of deprivations--awaiting return of hardware/software without which one 
cannot exist--as long as the above requirements have been met.

If M.A.S.O.C.H.I.S.M. membership continues to grow, perhaps we should start 
our own "feed" to provide support and encouragement--perhaps another twelve 
step program--for computer junkies.

garths@pro-xy (Garth Shultz)