Direct access for Acorn enthusiasts to Product Marketing at Acorn 

 With immediate effect, Acorn is pleased to announce today that it will 
offer a direct marketing input to  Internet users on comp.sys.acorn.  The 
EMail service can be addressed to P...@acorn.co.uk.  This mailbox  resides in 
Product Marketing and is read constantly.  Any marketing related queries can 
be addressed to this  mailbox and Product Marketing will be pleased to 
acknowledge receipt of such input.  Depending upon the  questions raised the 
query may be routed through to Customer Services on customer.services.acorn.co.uk.   
The query may be  referenced through to the FTP server at Acorn, or we may respond on 
a direct basis to the EMail sender and/ or we may also post a response 
directly to comp.sys.acorn. 

 Acorn reserves the right to not reply to queries for whatever reason or in 
the cases of either commercial or  conflict of interests reasons, choose to 
issue a standard disclaimer type notice. 

 The main purpose of this service and the occasional broadcast on 
comp.sys.acorn of communications from  Product Marketing is to assist Acorn 
enthusiasts in gaining the maximum amount of use and satisfaction  from 
their Acorn machines past, present and future! 

 Based on the responses that Acorn had to the Risc PC launch, we are trying 
this out for an initial period of 3  months and in collaboration with the 
emerging Acorn Enthusiasts' Scheme, we will use this as a vehicle to 
communicate appropriate information to our enthusiasts as quickly as 
possible. 

 In general this information will also be routed through to Acorn friendly 
press and will either be  synchronised in time for release with the Acorn 
press, if it is something that is normally embargoed, or  alternatively the 
Acorn press will follow after the event for those users who do not use 
Internet. 

 Please forward this to any other Internet related user on other 
environments. Any general commentary, either via EMail or on the bulletin 
board, will be appreciated. 

 I am sure all enthusiasts will appreciate that there are times when we 
cannot entertain a public conversation  on certain subjects and if we feel 
that our commercial position is being prejudiced by people taking an 
inappropriate advantage of our openess, then we will withdraw the service 
completely.   I am sure this will  not be necessary based on our experiences 
with Risc PC and we look forward to the extension of this  service after the 
end of the 3 month trial. 

 As an appetite whetter the first item that we will be posting on this 
service will be an update on the Second  Processor Cards for Risc PC and 
this will also be placed on the FTP server. 

Assuring you of our best intentions and happy tinkering! 

>From Product Marketing at Acorn 

23 June 1994 

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