From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffce418d7a49585f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-17 20:52:21 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of. Date: 16 Sep 1994 20:11:58 -0400 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <35dc8e$t7h@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <355o58$isa@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35au0c$imd@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1994-09-16T20:11:58-04:00 List-Id: Greg, let me get this right, you wanted to charge for an hour of time to come in and make a sales pitch? Well that's a novel way of doing business (well perhaps one should say it would be novel if it worked). Charging for sales pitches, well, well, that's the second strangest thing I heard about today (the first is too long a story ...)