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Re: I've just tried new.net's plugin. Don't.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Thu Mar 15 21:39:28 2001

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:41:05 -0800
From: Scott Francis <scott@virtualis.com>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
	Jeff Workman <jworkman@pimpworks.org>,
	Chris Davis <chris.davis@computerjobs.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:40:28PM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox had this to say:
> 
> OK, I just created Wilcox's law of customer support.. 
> 
> this states that for every choice you give users the number of potential
> problems increases proportianally.

s/proportionally/exponentially/

After all, customers interact with other customers, and worse, with sales folk.

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