Excerpted from message dated 03-21-95, Joey Mukherjee to John Poltorak:

JM>John Poltorak wrote in a message to Peter Fitzsimmons:
  >
JM> PF> How would this be different from OS2PROG?
  >
JM> JP> OS2PROG is, quite rightly, focused on programming. OS2DAP
  > JP> would give DAP members an opportunity to whinge about IBM's
  > JP> support, or discuss some of the inclusions on the latest DAP
  > JP> CD-ROM etc...
  >

Peter--

    PMFJI.  I don't really care how badly the OS2PROG conference is
fractionated, as long as there are a few of you gurus left around to
answer my questions.  But, there is at least one non sequitur in JP's
argument:  DAP has nothing to do with the DevCon CDs, at least not in
the US.

    Anybody can make complaints directly to devcon{at}vnet.ibm.com.  I've
always gotten an answer from them saying they'd pass on my bug report to
the appropriate developer, and sometimes a reply from that developer,
even though such inputs from me have yet to produced any any action. 
(However, I was explicitly told the error in processing my renewal
subscription to DevCon had been corrected, and I did get only one copy
of DevCon 6, correctly addressed!)

    IMNSHO, the more small, closely-related, highly-technical,
specialized FIDO conferences there are, each attempting to influence
IBM's actions, the less likely will IBM respond to any of them.

          --Murray
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