Paul, at 13:12 on May 11 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

PE> As seriously as you are saying that all 15 USR bugs are in fact,
PE> "user-errors".

BG> No, of course not.  What I AM saying is that not ALL of them are 
BG> specifically modem bugs either, and I've already pointed out those which 
BG> IMO weren't.

PE> Bill, you and David were claiming that they were ALL "user-errors",
PE> which is why USR refused to fix them. 

Complete and utter crap.  We did NOT say that at all.

PE> You passed off my Spirit Viper failed EC call as "one-off,
irrelevant", 
PE> from memory.  The fact that I'd only made 3 calls to a Viper didn't seem to 
PE> bother you. 

I certainly don't recall your saying (correct grammar; Rod take note :))
that you'd only made 3 calls, just "When calling a Viper..." etc.

PE> As it is, now that you've had a chance to call a Viper and
PE> an M34F, it happens to them too. 

Not quite, it happens to YOURS and ONLY yours, for some strange reason.

PE> Why you thought it was more prudent to just say "it's only a
one-off thing" 
PE> rather than treat it as a piece of test data worth investigating can only 
PE> be explained in light of FRZ.

ALL problems, no matter how trivial or infrequent, have causes, but if
they're extremely uncommon (or one-offs), finding said cause may be rather
difficult, if not completely impossible.

PE> And Rod's problem was washed away too, David alluded to the real
PE> reason, USR couldn't give a shit, they think they can make more
PE> money by NOT fixing a bug in that regard. 

Another arse-blown opinion of yours being passed off as fact, perhaps ?

Regards, Bill

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