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Re: Mathematica- can't get our passwords

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From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:15
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In article <20724@plains.NoDak.edu> enders@bolshoi.cc.misu.NoDak.edu (Todd  
Enders) writes:
> Bill Smith writes
> > We have 8 new stations in our lab just sitting there because we can't
> > get Mathematica passwords from Wolfram so we can make them available
> > to our students to do their lab work.  We have been waiting for 3 weeks!
> > We have sent email and called but we just get put off.  Is there some
> > problem between NeXT and Wolfram that they can't get their record act
> > together?  Anybody else got the run around on this issue?  I wish NeXT
> > had retained distribution for academic users.  
> 
>      Funny you should mention this...  I got off the phone with an individual
> at Wolfram just today.  Sine I finally had enough room to install my copy
> of Mathematica, I fired up MathInstaller (this under NS 3.0), filled out the
> registration form and clicked the e-mail button.  Absolutely nothing  
happened!

NeXT-FAQ.misc: tidbits

*** Subject: M11. Why doesn't email registration to Mathematica work?

There is a bug with this option where the mail instead of
being sent to Wolfram is stored in /tmp/email.message.
This file seems to be suitable for mailing to
register@wri.com

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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