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From: Gord Cormack <gvcormac@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Do you believe Jack Reynolds? (No 24:2)
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reynolds@itpinc.com (Intelligent Text Processing) wrote:
 
>I don't think you have a handle on how the people at Verity feel or on
>what the folks at comp.ai.nat-lang determine.
 
Here are the results of my HTML ballot
 
   http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/reynolds.html
 
Question:
 
        "Do you believe the claims that Jack Reynolds makes about the
        capabilities of the Intelligent Text Processing product?"  
 
Answers:
 
        YES: 2 (7.7%)   NO: 24 (92.3%)
 
Sites Responding (alphabetical order):
 
        198.102.88.7
        204.75.201.149
        JARL.CS.CORNELL.EDU
        TAURUS.CS.CORNELL.EDU
        age.cs.columbia.edu
        arachnophobia.parc.xerox.com
        asp.cl.cam.ac.uk
        blv-pm10-ip3.halcyon.com
        dialup56.afn.org
        dvp.cs.toronto.edu
        euas65.eua.ericsson.se
        gateway.TPP.com
        gunji.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
        hades.ncsc.mil
        hassaleh.cedar.Buffalo.EDU
        mach8.itpinc.com
        macw2d.hisd.harris.com
        meteor.menlo.harlequin.com
        mouldhound.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
        neumann.uwaterloo.ca
        pinea.xerox.fr
        plg.uwaterloo.ca
        ppp05.math.uwaterloo.ca
        uhunix2.its.Hawaii.Edu
        user172.fiber.net
        wall.etl.go.jp

Votes and Comments (chronological order):
  
no       
no       
no      He is a salesman and has problems with logic. 
yes      
no      Jack Reynolds is a Snake Oil Salesman.  He's a Crappy Marketer Too! 
no       
no      Demo failed on all my queries -- only succeeded on their suggested 
        queries 
no      I'm not in the population "people at Verity" or "folks at 
        comp.ai.nat-lang", but I'm a grad student who reads 
        comp.ai.doc-analysis.misc 
no       
no      Like most vendors there is some exaggeration. In this case, more 
        than is acceptable. 
yes     This is way cool. How long will the voting be open? Should I put in a 
        link from the  
no      comp.ai.nat-lang subscriber 
no      In the set of "people who read comp.ai.nat-lang" 
no      His bogus claims make his software look worse than it might truly be. 
no      It will a long, long way to go to reach what he has claimed... 
no       
no       
no      Of course not; no one can yet do what he claims and there's no telling 
        when someone will.  Also he has terrible manners and really crappy 
        political skills for someone allegedly doing marketing. 
no      No matter where you go there you are. 
no       
no       
no      Holy grail, my foot! 
no       
no       
no      Arrogant, too. Tight corner? 
no      His system hasn't been evaluated in the TREC arena 

-- 
Gordon V. Cormack     CS Dept, University of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
gvcormac@uwaterloo.ca           http://cormack.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac

