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HUMOR: WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon May 8 11:26:21 1995

To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 11:21:20 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>

Or, why form letters aren't such a hot idea on the net.
-Drew

From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 16:05:06 -0400
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
From: "Nina P. Parker  ORACLE" <NPPARKER@us.oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 95 15:24:20 PDT
To: dwallach@CS.Princeton.EDU
Subject: WWW, YOU, & ORACLE

Dear Dan, 
 
Wow!  While surfing the net, I found your home page and immediately wanted to 
contact you.  It's fantastic to see your creative efforts in making the 
Information Highway a reality.  Here at Oracle, we seek to do the same.  
Oracle Corp., a $2 billion company with headquarters in Redwood Shores, 
Calif., is the world's leading supplier of information management software.  
Oracle develops and markets Oracle Media Server and the Oracle7 and Oracle Rdb 
families of software products for database management; Developer/2000 and 
Designer/2000, tools for enterprise-wide, client/server application 
development; and Oracle Cooperative Applications, packaged client/server 
solutions for accounting, manufacturing, distribution, human resources and 
project control.  Oracle software runs on personal digital assistants, set-top 
devices, PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel 
computers.  The company offers its products, along with related consulting, 
education and support services in more that 90 countries around the world.  
Oracle's Worldwide Web address is (URL) http://www.oracle.com/ if you are 
interested in more information.   
 
WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO SEND A CURRENT COPY OF YOUR RESUME TO ORACLE 
RECRUITING at the e-mail address schedule@us.oracle.com or by US Mail to: 
Oracle Corporation 
500 Oracle Parkway 
Box 659501 
Redwood Shores, CA 94065 
 
I look forward to hearing from you. 
           
Best Regards,             
* Nina P. Parker   
* Oracle University Recruiting   
* Phone: (415) 506 8669 

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To: "Nina P. Parker ORACLE" <NPPARKER@us.oracle.com>
Subject: WWW, YOU, & PRINCETON 
Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 22:19:17 -0400
From: Dan Wallach <dwallach>

Dear Nina,

Wow!  While reading my e-mail, I found your form-letter and immediately
wanted to contact you.  It's amusing to see your untraditional efforts in
making Oracle's university recuiting a reality.  Here at Princeton, we
seek to do better.  The Princeton CS graduate community, a non-profit
entity in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world's leading research
institutions.  Our department developes a wide variety of networking and
operating systems enhancements as well as an extensive family of
theoretical foundations for our field.  Princeton grad students publish in
small workshops and huge conferences, as well as take summer internship
positions with various industrial concerns.  Princeton CS's Worldwide
Web address is (URL) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/ if you are interested in
more information.

WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO SEND LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, EITHER TO
SUPPORT GRAD STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS OR UNDERWRITE A WEEKLY BEER BUST.
You can send cash or checks by US Mail to:

Dan Wallach
CS Department
Princeton University
35 Olden St.
Princeton, NJ  08544

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards,
* Dan Wallach
* Princeton CS Researcher
* Phone: (609) 258 1798


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