>From: Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> >Trouble is, in most cases a "rest" largely resembles a dirt nap. How >many models that have been "given a rest" have ever resurfaced?
One - the Rambouillet That language of "sleep" or "nap" was used once. And the Ram did wake up from its first nap, and there was one more brief run of them before it slept for good. So I think this statement that when Rivs sleep they never come back is an exaggeration. In all the other cases of discontinuance, the company was totally upfront, and said it's being discontinued. And furthermore, when the Ram went to sleep, I believe I recall Grant saying that he wasn't sure that it would wake up. And when it was announced two years ago that Hillborne was going on yearlong hiatus to clear resources for incoming Clems, people assumed that meant, "oh, code for it's over for Sam." But the company was upfront about it. They said yearlong hiatus, they weren't ambiguous by using a word like nap, and in the Hillborne's case, the reality was exactly like they said - the Hillbornes were not discontinued. So I haven't seen a lot of evidence to claim that there has been a pattern of them saying "model sleeping" and it being code for something else. It happened once - if that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
