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To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (40619)	12/20/1998 7:43:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Frank... Relax. People do make mistakes.....that's why they put erasers on pencils. I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it, whether it's DELL or CPQ. Life's too short. El

To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (40619)	12/20/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Frank - We would probably make jokes about it. Looks like the Dell thread is ready to 'lock and load' over the post!! Relax. I see Annette is already complaining about the number of PM's she is receiving. I would not be surprised if she gets enough spam to have her ISP cancel her account!!! Regards, John

To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (40619)	12/21/1998 12:34:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Frank - From your post on the DELL thread - Let us all contact Dell's public relations immediately tomorrow to see if this is just some vicious rumor being spread around right before Dell may be on the move again??? Get a life. How does this compare to the routine Bulls*t dished out on the DELL thread about CPQ? And in this case, the poster is actually a DELL shareholder. Are you suggesting that she is lying? Do you know the facts, are you in a position to say this did not happen? Or maybe the real story (as is often the case ) is close but someone missed the arcane technical details, like maybe the customer requested the BIOS that works around Y2K bugs in some particular case, but got the 'standard' BIOS instead? In short, do you know anything about this? The legal staff at Dell will be briefed tomorrow on this matter as they can decide what steps to take in this issue.* If DELL legal or any other legal wastes the shareholders' money and their time on issues like this, it's time to short the stock. DELL ships more than 20,000 PCs a day. Y2K configuration issues are challenging at the best of times, with customers demanding both special code and firmware, and also vendor guarantees which attempt to put all of the responsibility on the seller and none on the buyer. Amazing as it seems, DELL actually screws up on occasion - I know of one site where 1 in 4 new computers were DOA because a clamp holding something was installed backwards. Still, Dell's average performance is about the best in the business. Thanks for a really stupid series of posts. I wish you luck in your Jihad.