From: "Kevin Peuhkurinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If that's not bad enough, I find most support from proprietary software > vendors to be the pits. We have Mcafee's Enterprise Anti-Virus suite > with a support contract. However, I hate calling them because I tend > to have to wait 30+ minutes on hold just to speak to a first level
That's 30 minutes.... > support person who knows less about the product than I do who forces me > to walk through all the steps I've already done before giving up and Let's say that's 30 minutes of step walking.... > putting me on hold for another 30+ minutes while they try to track down > a second level support person. That's 30 minutes.... > On the other hand, I had a question about SpamAssassin the other day > that I couldn't figure out so I posted to this list. Within two hours > one of the developers had responded. You just can't buy that kind of > support. 2 hours is better than an hour and a half? {O,o} (Yes, I know that you were free to do other stuff while "on hold" with SpamAssassin. The numbers just sort of tickled me.)