On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:59:41 -0400, Mary Anne Matyaz <maryanne4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>... It's simply a way for US Govt >accounts to open problems and speak to a US citizen. It's >surprising how much is not in the US, and right now if a >Govt customer opens a PMR, and happens to get a non-US >citizen, they have to close the pmr. >... ... because we just can't trust those Canadians, etc. not to take advantage of a US Government's 0C4. If those are the US Government's rules then IBM would be foolish not to set up such accounts, but the concept behind the rule makes no sense. It would make more sense (but would be impossible to implement) a rule that requires competency rather than US citizenship. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html