Here's an item from the NewsScan newsletter (www.newsscan.com) that's
amusing on several levels.
Jon
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A GOOSE AND GANDER STORY: AOL TIME WARNER WORKERS HATE AOL MAIL SYSTEM
When AOL and Time Warner merged, executives of the new company required the
divisions of the old Time Warner to adopt AOL mail system for internal use
throughout the new company. But now that policy has been reversed, because
managers and employees complained bitterly that AOL's consumer-oriented
system is unfit for serious business use, maintaining that the software
crashes, messages can't handle large attachments, communications sent to
large groups of people are mis-identified as spam and thrown away, and so
forth. Staffers in Time's Washington bureau apparently began to mock the AOL
mail system by singing out, "So easy to use, no wonder it's number one." So
employees began relying less on e-mail and more on other forms of
communication. One staffer said, "If all goes well, we'll never have to use
e-mail and we'll start talking to each other again." (Wall Street Journal 22
Mar 2002) http://www.online.wsj.com/ (sub req'd)
Jonathan Falk
Pine Tree Folk School
RR 2, Box 7162
Carmel, ME 04419
(207)848-2433
<http://www.ptfolkschool.org>
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