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Subject: Re: CSTal 2 Question

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 23:20:49 02/09/00

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On February 09, 2000 at 20:26:29, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:

>Support? I e-mailed Oxford-Softworks and never received a reply. I then e-mailed
>Chris Whittington who referred me to Oxford-Softworks. I wrote him back saying
>that Oxford-Softworks has not responded. Chris Whittington then sent me the
>reply "FW: OS". I queried back if FW meant Forget Why? For What? or Forget
>Whittington? Anyway, thanks for your help, Jeroen. I actually seem to have done
>it by dragging the download into CSTal exe and replaced it with just using the
>mouse. I see that now there is the "Reduced Strength" tab so I expect all is
>well. I will check what you suggest and make sure it says 2.03. Very strange is
>the new version actually has fewer megabytes.
>
>Thanks again for your help!
>
>Mel

Your wisecrack does sound kind of funny. :)  But Chris probably has hired
someone to handle these tech support questions for him.  When someone gets an
email forwarded from their boss, they generally follow up on it.  I think in
that situation you should wait a day or two, and if you still don't hear back
from the techie, it's fair to email Chris again and say you're just not getting
customer support.  Doing what you did lessens your chance of receiveing proper
support, because they may think you're just a crank.

People sometimes treat techs badly: do they really think that will improve the
service they get?  It's quite the opposite.  Techs are usually pretty busy, and
often the people who shit on them are the people whose stuff ends up at the
bottom of the todo list.

Here, it's a little different, you're treating Chris badly for doing his job.
That, I don't understand.

Dave



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