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Al Karman <[log in to unmask]>
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Al Karman <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:43:10 -0600
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I've found that foaming at the mouth is a most persuasive sales
technique.


_Flame_proof_Al Karman
Director of Information Technology
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-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Tom Brandt
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:59 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Security/3000 Vesoft

With a sales technique like this, Mr. Donaldson will surely go far.

At 10:00 AM 1/16/2004, Brian Donaldson wrote:
>The only reason I wrote my own security system was out of necessity. I
>refused to pay Vesoft (or anyone else for that matter) the inflated
amounts
>of money they were asking for the software.
>
>When I finally developed it, I had an epiphany. How simple it was to
put
>together and how at run time it does exactly the same thing as
>Vesoft's "Security/3000".
>
>I offered it to the listers here as I know there have been many shops
I've
>worked in that don't have any Vesoft products on their box, even MPEX.
>
>Thanks to all the pyschotic listers who sent me hate mail. I laugh at
you
>all. You're all a bunch of pathetic, bloated, fat mouthed, self
righteous
>jackasses getting paid for nothing. I respect none of you especially
>jokers by the name of Tracy "vaporware" Pierce, Chuck Ciesinski and
Shawn
>Gordon. If listers aren't interested in anything I have to offer they
>shouldn't reply.
>
>Unfortunately, my innocent listing invoked a stream of hate mail,
>especially from these fat mouthed jokers with nothing better to do with
>their company's time but waste it reading (and replying) to these
postings.
>
>
>Easy to see how IT "professionals" have been getting overpaid for
years,
>especially IT managers/directors.
>
>All emails sent to me from HP3000-L are immediately deleted (unless you
are
>someone I already know and have established a good rapport with) so
don't
>even bother writing to me.
>
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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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