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rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
>I think this message deserves a wider audience than gnu-misc-discuss.
>
>Date: 2 Jun 91 21:45:53 GMT
>From: helios!archone.tamu.edu@cs.utexas.edu  (Byron Rakitzis)
>Organization: College of Architecture, Texas A&M University.
>Subject: AT&T, X backing store
>To: gnu-misc-discuss@cis.ohio-state.edu
>
>I recently switched my phone service from AT&T to MCI in a fit of pique
>on hearing about the threat from AT&T concerning the use of backing
>store in the X server.
>
>Predictably enough, AT&T called me last weekend...
>... sales droid... "well, I'm going to talk to my supervisor about
>this! I'm writing this all down, and I'm not just going to throw it away!".
>
>Even if I did not accomplish anything, it was fun, in a perverse sort
>of way, to yell about this to someone at AT&T...

   "The secret to success is sincerity.  If you can just fake that,
you've got it made."  ---Walter Cronkite

   That "writing it down, talk to supervisor" appears to be their
canned response.  I doubt it will do much good.  I've received a couple
calls from AT&T about long distance; after telling them I won't deal
with them because of their saturation advertising campaign, I get the
same response as you did.

   Each time they call, I find myself in exactly the same situation as
some of their commercials.  Excapt, it's not "that other" long
distance company calling, it's AT&T each time.

   Personally, I'll stick with MCI (unless they start trying to mess up
the software business too).