Re: BPCS Product Enhancement -- BPCS-L

Dear Sales,

In a message dated 1/23/01 3:41:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, sales@ascmi.com
writes:

HI:
We are going to announce shortly a product that will add value to existing
BPCS Applications.We are not aware of the new owners of the product and
would like to have a contact and or their phone number.Also do you have any
suggestions for contacting BPCS Installations.
Thank You
Solar Tech Sales

Number one, if your company truly kept track of the BPCS community, you would
know _FAR_ better than to come to BPCS-L to receive tracking data on BPCS
customers. Believe you me that, in giving you a polite "please go elsewhere
for this data" response, I am demonstrating _ENORMOUS_ restraint. If you
wish to "add value" to BPCS, I would suggest that you participate in the
discussion group rather than attempt to "farm" names from the list. Were
data as discrete as phone numbers available to me (which it probably would be
if I cared to make the effort), I would not dispense it to you or any other
vendor.

This privacy policy is part of the operating guidelines of this list. I do
not share as much as an e-mail address from BPCS-L with _ANYONE_ unless I
require the services of someone from the midrange.com domain to resolve a
subscription issue beyond my control. You are welcome, as are all BPCS
vendors, to make a press announcement regarding your product. However, I am
copying your message to the list at large so that those that wish to
investigate your product may do so and that those that find your actions to
be as reprehensible as do I to avoid doing business with your company for the
rest of our natural lives.

Good luck, and good day...

Dean Asmussen
BPCS-L List Administrator
E-mail: DAsmussen@aol.com