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To: Ilya Pichkhadze who wrote (2100)1/30/1999 10:00:00 AM
From: Brooks Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 20297
 
Memo to Pete: Be tough with Yahoo! Insist on "dial-tone quality" Don't give in to the stupid attitude revealed by THIS quote:

<<"We haven't formally announced [the tax site] yet," said a Yahoo spokesperson. "You want to let people bang on it first.">>

This is the kind of pea-brained attitude that computer and software companies have about their products. It's why their products crash all the time, enraging and inconveniencing their customers. As Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's computer columnist, has noted many times -- if any other industry put so many defective products on the market, and relied on their customers to do their product testing for them, we would be having televised Congressional hearings to investigate. (He made that statement when Democrats held control of Congress, but I believe even Republicans would be holding hearings if Ford made products that crashed as often as Windows)

Can you believe Yahoo! testing their tax site by "letting people bang on it?" Oops! You went to jail for tax fraud because our site had a wee little bug? Well, we TOLD you it was a beta version. We hadn't ANNOUNCED it yet. Please log in again when you get out of prison.



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