[TowerTalk] Porcupines on commercial towers and stuff

[Jim Lux]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Schafer" <garyschafer at comcast.net>
> I have seen first hand all of the above.
>
> On one of the boating newsgroups there was a company touting those
> magnetic fuel cleaners that go in the fuel line. They stated that the US
> Coast Guard was a user of them. Well as it turned out in the letter from
> the Coast Guard, they were "tried on a couple of boats and some Chief
> wrote a letter that said "they seem to work well" with little other
> data. Some test. But that "qualified" the Coast Guard as a user of the
> product.

Such events are why we at JPL are forbidden to write evaulation letters or
emails, without having first received explicit permission to do so.  They'd
much prefer that if you're going to say something worked, that you have
experimental evidence to back up the statement and have had it reviewed and
published somewhere "neutral".  They're also very sensitive about expressing
opinions that a vendor did or did not do a good job, for the same kinds of
reasons.  I suspect that most other large "image conscious" places have
similar policies.