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Re: UU Net sales tactics? (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Thu Oct 29 19:50:14 1998

From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: goemon@sasami.anime.net (Dan Hollis)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:31:39 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981029155803.8751A-100000@sasami.anime.net> from "Dan Hollis" at Oct 29, 98 04:00:37 pm

Dan Hollis wrote:

> The sales rep was rendered speechless for 30 seconds.
> 
> I also got the insulting "small fry" treatment that others have mentioned.
> 
> Do all UUnet sales reps have this snobbish insulting attitude? Or are we
> all getting the same rep or something.

Well I have not gotten my call from UUnet, yet.  When I do, I'll just
tell them "Sorry, we're one of those small fry businesses that isn't
in UUnet's marketing strategy".

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