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goodguy

12/08/03 2:31 PM

#51441 RE: rmarchma #51437

Ronnie, excellent well thought, well written draft!
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arthritis65

12/08/03 2:35 PM

#51442 RE: rmarchma #51437

ronny..you left the foxhole with a grenade launcher..thanks..raymond
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PurpleNGold

12/08/03 2:59 PM

#51447 RE: rmarchma #51437

rmarchma...did you mean to write 'gouging' as opposed to 'gauging' (in the second paragraph)? Excellent job on the letter....thanks for all you do and provide!
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Dave Davis

12/08/03 3:10 PM

#51449 RE: rmarchma #51437

Forbes e-mail contacts. One of these should be Ms. MacDonald's boss. Also note that they have a Director of Quality Assurance, Mr. Mike Jones.



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TFWG

12/08/03 3:16 PM

#51452 RE: rmarchma #51437

Hi all. Wow, love(d) reading the passion in everyone's responses today. I have not written mine yet, will do when time premits.

Anyway, great, great, great responses by all...including IDCC. Should be fun to watch our stock over the next few weeks, especially if "Uncle Billy" comes through.

Best Regards,

Bob

PS HOW ABOUT THOSE NORTH PENN KNIGHTS????? 1st High School football State Championship. Kudos to Pittsburgh Central Catholic too. You played tough, but it was our night.


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bivouac

12/08/03 3:37 PM

#51464 RE: rmarchma #51437

rmarchma, Your rhetoric is most powerful. Expressed in a
most discriptive way. The best!
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Learning2vest

12/08/03 3:43 PM

#51468 RE: rmarchma #51437

Ron, will share a trick I learned the hard way in a marketing experience a long time ago. When you send a letter directly TO a person, you confer complete power to them to do with it as they please. They can read it without concern for what anybody else will think, if they read it at all. On the other hand, if you COPY them on a letter about something THEY DID, and direct the message to someone THEY WILL WORRY ABOUT, the psychological dynamics work to amplify the signal quite a bit.

In the case of your response you may want to consider directing the message to somebody the writer's office will need to be respectful of, and including her on the cc list. Otherwise, IMO the best you can hope for is basically a notice of receipt wrapped in some pretty ribbon.

I find that addressing things like you are doing there to appropriate regulatory authorities with a cc to folks like your govt reps, the AARP, and the individual whose actions you are offended by tends to get better responses(A smoking grenade rolling around under your desk is pretty hard to ignore or to take lightly. LOL!). Just gotta be certain of your facts and of your ability to demonstrate the honorable nature of your completely personal initiative, and then have the grit to stay the course when the bluster comes blowing back.

That's certainly not a tact to be taken without careful consideration and preparation, but when/if you really want to be heard and taken seriously, doing things that way will usually do the trick.




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jimmylee

12/08/03 4:22 PM

#51487 RE: rmarchma #51437

Ronnie, A great response. One minor adjustment, to the first line, second paragraph.

I believe you meant to use the word "gouging" vs "gauging," in that sentence.

Keep up the wonderful work you do for us all.


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dsteel

12/08/03 8:18 PM

#51505 RE: rmarchma #51437

Ronnie:

A quote from your letter and well done I might add!

"I also think that with enough adverse publicity, there might be the possibility of a successful boycott of Nokia products in America".

I don't think a boycott will ever be in the cards. Nokia is at their pinnacle and their undoing will come from within their own corporate structure. There is evidence of that already.

Anyway,IMHO the Asians will ultimately rule telecommunications.

dsteel