[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[MICHAEL W FARRELL]

I was not aware of Accuweather until about two weeks ago, when Verizon FIOS, 
my cable company (permanently) dropped the Weather Channel and replaced it 
with Accuweather.!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VAXman---- via Info-vax" <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Accuweather new contract


> In article <cnd1vcF6mdjU2 at mid.individual.net>, 
> bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>In article <00AF498D.4A49D6C1 at sendspamhere.org>,
>> VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>> In article <50881470-1dc3-481c-b1f5-954754e098db at googlegroups.com>, 
>>> clairgrant71 at gmail.com writes:
>>>>On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 10:06:53 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
>>>>> clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> > Accuweather is one of our Field test sites.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the problems at DEC, which you're probably much more familiar
>>>>> with than I am, was hearing that some VMS customers did not want to be
>>>>> known.  At least that is what some of us were told.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is true.
>>>
>>> Albeit, Accuweather was featured in an HP OpenVMS video, so it's obvious 
>>> that
>>> Accuweather wasn't hiding behind any veil of customer secrecy.
>>
>>Apparently they are now.  Or is the "Microsoft Cloud" really a bunch of
>>VMS machines?  Am I the only one who sees this as a problem?  How do you
>>sell a product when someone with large visibilty that you claim is a
>>major VMS site publicly states, quite to the contrary, that they are a
>>Microsoft Cloud company?
>>
>>I'm not knocking VMS.  I am nerely pointing out that this is a serious
>>piece of anti-advertising.
>
> I've never seen an Accuweather commercial.
>
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