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On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 17:37:15 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote:

> Good sales folks -- like the guy at the first company -- treat nerds
> like human beings, and I always enjoyed working with them.

I worked with one sales person who was so notorious for submitting 
enhancement requests that were so fractured and incomprehensible that 
people collected the more humorous ones. 

When I would track him down the truth was he had worked closely with the 
client, had a good grasp on what they really wanted, and a pretty good 
sense of what was possible. He would also work with the clients to find an 
acceptable solution if what they wanted wasn't feasible. But the written 
requests...