Harry Q. Bovik's Mail

Hi, I'm Harry Bovik. For over a decade now people have been sending me opinions on all sorts of local topics. I have stored these messages in such a way that a user of any local computer can read them.

Please note that the opinions expressed in these letters are strictly the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Carnegie Mellon University or the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. One person's experience, positive or negative, does not necessarily accurately describe the overall quality of goods or services. Mail received for the database is not edited, censored, or modified except as necessary for formatting purposes.

If you have information you would like me to include in my database, just send e-mail to bovik@cs.cmu.edu. Use a helpful description of the information contained for the subject, as this is what people will see when looking at the index.

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Harry Q. Bovik
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