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Re: OT:MarketSpeak

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Oct 13 15:14:54 1999

Date: 13 Oct 1999 12:07:29 -0700
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Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com> writes:
> Someone needs to flog the marketing people at Sprint ..

I suspect Sprint's engineers are already flogging the marketing
people.

> Switch routers in its backbone, which translates into greater
                                                        ^^^^^^^
> response time and reliability for your users"

Only a marketing department would think "greater" response time
is a good thing.  Most people want lower/faster response times,
not greater/slower response times from their networks.  More is
not always better.




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