Re: IBM Pennant Systems survey

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From: Bill Bormann
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:12

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In article <199208281156.AA08401@claude.cs.umb.edu>
karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) writes:

>
>Some of you may have seen the survey request from IBM,
>where they want us to send them documents.  I asked them
>what they would actually use the documents for.  After about
>a week, someone finally responded with what is below,
>telling me in effect that they won't tell me.
>
>I urge people not to cooperate with this survey.
>
>karl@cs.umb.edu

I received this survey and, after looking it over, floated it into
the trashcan. My impression: a vague request for information that was
going to be time-consuming to acquire and of no benefit to my
organization. My second impression was that this was the first survey
ever written by the author.

BTW, we run TeX on an IBM 3090-180E system.

Bill Bormann

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