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Re: OT: Tech Support Humour

Derek Kranefeld (darewreck@home.com)
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:32:56 -0700 (PDT)

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Hello All,

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, George Pajari wrote:

> For your amusement I thought I'd forward the following question posed to our
> Technical Support people for your consideration and amusement.
>
> > If I need to reload the software, where would be the
> > best place to download the software from FTP or the
> > internet?

OK, I'm going to be anal here and say that it could be possible for a user
to be mistaken for the reasons that some companies (now I'm dating myself
:) use to distribute their updates via their own BBS dialups. While others
may be connected to the internet and may thransfer via HTTP. So the
question could be an honest attempt to distinguish whether the software is
accessable from a private dialup BBS or from the publically accessible
internet. And *yes* I know FTP was not a common transfer protocol of BBS's
but they could have a dialup unix BBS using FTP.

How's that for anal :)

Take er easy, stay cool!

Derek

PS. BTW, I do see the humour in the question, I just want to play devil's
advocate :>

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