Re: jaws 10.00 cd:

  • From: Yardbird <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:39:15 -0800

Hi John,

that's nice. My situation is obviously different. Glad the CD distribution 
is working correctly for you, though!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john.falter" <john.falter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: jaws 10.00 cd:


I just received my JAWS 10 CD.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: jaws 10.00 cd:


> Hi Katherine,
>
> Just for the record, I'm another longtime jaws customer whose SMA has been
> kept up to date, and I haven't received a CD of a Jaws version update for
> so
> many years I can't even remember the last time. Without calling and
> asking,
> that is. More than once. That's what I do every year, after waiting a
> month
> or so once the version is released. Each time, I'm told that the Jaws
> mailing system shows there was some error about my mailing address and
> that
> the CD was sent but was returned. It's not actually clear whether they're
> sure of this, but that's what they think the message is telling them when
> they look at my file. We double check my address, which hasn't changed one
> bit since I began using Jaws about ten years ago. They confirm that the
> information's correct, but insist that something was entered wrong
> somewhere
> along the line, and promise to resend. A few weeks later, when nothing has
> come, still, I call again. They tell me there was some mailing problem,
> again, and promise to investigate it, and tell me they're going to send
> the
> CD UPS, no charge to me. having kept my temper nicely all the while (by
> that
> time, I'm bound to have downloaded the program and at least one update),
> and
> I thank them cordially for their generosity, since the free UPS delivery
> is
> apparently the only sort of apology I'm going to get.
>
> As I say, this has been happening for years. I'd say at least the past
> three
> versions or so. Happy to say, as long as the FS Web site doesn't go down
> permanently in a denial of service attack perpetrated by some inscrutable
> anti-blind hacker, it's really all moot, and I have to admit the CD seems
> kind of irrelevant. Redundant. Worse than redundant, actually, especially
> now that they say the Real Speak voices can be download, too, and you
> don't
> have to get them from an installation CD.
>
> Oh, well. Tying a figurative ribbon around my figurative finger to remind
> myself to take a few minutes and download whatever update they're up to of
> Version 10 soon, although if it hands me as many problems and bugs as the
> last several versions have, things I've mostly had to learn to live with
> and
> work around, there'll be more time than just that I'll have to spend. So
> it
> goes.
>
> Hope this helps, as we say. By way of small consolation, I mean.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <katherineschulz6266@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: jaws 10.00 cd:
>
>
> My SMA is up to date and I haven't received a CD since version 8 came out.
>
> I downloaded 9 which is what I have now.  Do I have to ask for version
> 10.00
> since they haven't sent it?
>
> Katherine
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Bruce Toews" <bruce@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:01 AM
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: jaws 10.00 cd:
>
>> If your SMA is up-to-date, you will get a new JAWS CD. Period. They don't
>> know if you downloaded the program or not, and they dont' care.
>>
>> bruce
>>
>> -- 
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>>
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, p.wildcat1234@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list this is kenny. If you download version 10.0 of jaws, Does it
>>> mean
>>> that they won't ship the cd out to you? Or will they still ship your cd
>>> out to you.
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