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Re: bogus WriteNow upgrade gimmick

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From: Ralph Gonzalez
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 13:09
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tlt38517@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel) writes:

>>30, 1992, the upgrade price becomes $69.95.)
>Yes it's nothing to get excited about.  I don't know why all you people are
>moaning about this.  Don't you ever get junk mail?  Bitching about WriteNow is
>particularly silly since they make on of the best designed and supported Mac
>applications on the market.  I wish every piece of software was as well
>designed.  Instead of moaning about your upgrade offers get the 3.0 upgrade and
>you'll see what I mean.

(Ooooh, sounds like a flame!) I'm not bitching about WriteNow. I'm
complaining about misleading packaging on junk mail. Most of my junk
mail I can simply throw away without opening. But WriteNow's letter
didn't say T/Maker anywhere on the envelope and had the misleading
"Subscription expiration" printed on the envelope instead. Nowhere
inside does it explain what "subscription" they're talking about.

Do you enjoy reading junk mail? Do you think that advertisers 
should put misleading slogans on their envelopes like "nude
pictures enclosed", without actually enclosing nude pictures? :-)

-Ralph

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Ralph Gonzalez, Computer Science, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ
Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
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Subject: Re: bogus WriteNow upgrade gimmick
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Date: 8 Sep 92 13:09:06 GMT
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