Hello there fellow Amiga fan,

Since C= has had so many problems with marketing in the past, here
is an idea to make it better. As you might now, advertising works
by making people recognise something and when they want to buy
a similar thing, they wander around and eventually, they will see
something that reminds them of the product. If you are unsure what
to buy, then this will draw you toward the product, since you
remember it and people tend to buy "known" things. Furtunately,
one can't force people to buy something.

    So this is, what this is all about. The Amiga needs something,
which will the customer immediately remind him of the Amiga, when
he or she sees it. Here is my proposal:

	    Amy the Squirrel

Pro:
    o She looks really _nice_ (sexy :)
    o An Amiga fan made her with DPaint
    o The creator of her is a professional so there is no problem with
      getting more pictures of her (probably less offending then this
      one).

Contra:
    o The new owner of the Amiga has to accept her
    o Eric Schwartz has to sell her to new owner of Amiga

The picture is from "The History of Amy the Squirrel" by Eric Schwartz,
who of course owns all copyrights and everything.

So here is how it works. Get the file "Mascot.lha" off AMINET (in
"pics/misc") and have a look at her (if you don't know her already) and
make up your mind and finally send an EMail to

	digulla@fh-konstanz.de

stating whether you like or dislike her as a mascot for Amiga. I will
count the votes and make a public announcement later with the total
number of all votes and the number of pro and contra votes (no names
will be spread except you ask for it).

--
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla.                                      Author of XDME

"(to) optimize: Make a program faster by improving the algorithms rather than
by buying a faster machine."

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