🚀 go-pugleaf

shaver@convex.com (Dave Shaver) writes:
>The question: If your management questioned the value of your news,
>what would you say?  What if they said they wanted to turn the whole
>thing off or eliminate 90% of it?  (The "non-business" newsgroups.)
>What arguments would you use to maintain your feed?

       Discovering which non-DEC peripherals had good reputations,
which DEC peripherals had bad reputations, and being able to compare notes
on what DEC reps were saying to various customers was immensely helpful
back when I was buying and installing DEC systems, and later Sun machines.
(It was a real culture shock for the DEC salespeople when they discovered
we had a way of checking up on what they were saying to different customers.)
Reduced our hardware costs considerably in the early 1980s.
     
					John Nagle