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Subject:No, Kelly the Photoshop Course is not a scam From:Jan Oliver <Explorecds -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 29 Nov 1997 22:25:43 -0500
Dear Kelly,
Yes, you missed something. Before leveling charges of a scam based on your
objections to the advertisement, it would be prudent, not to mention
courteous, to take the step of contacting my company and verifying the course
and instructor's credentials for teaching Photoshop. And yes, her client list
does really include Radio Shack, TCI, Reuters NewMedia, Jones Internet,
ImagiNation Network etc. Did you not notice that the advertisement did not
request a check or credit card number? Of course, a prospective student would
want more information before making a decision, that's what the advertisement
invites them to do -- seek more information. By the way, what many of us feel
is very exciting about the Internet is that making use of it doesn't require
you to be Ziff-Davis or IBM or Microsoft. You could even make a very strong
case that the most creative work isn't being done by these large
corporations. But, to each his own. . . By the way, you don't work for
Ziff-Davis or another distance learning company that charges a lot more for a
similar course, do you?
Rather than take up the list's time with any more of this why don't you
contact me at explorecds -at- aol -dot- com? Jan Oliver, Creative Director, Wild Studio.
