Sun ships us bad RAM, says won't replace because it's not bad enough

From: Baby Peanut (baby_p_nut2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 30 Oct 2003 12:13:13 -0800

Here's the error messages that Sun says aren't bad enough to mandate a
replacement module for our brand-new system.

Oct 25 20:15:30 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 648784 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x0007f3eb.2026e5b0 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
J3200 is Persistent
Oct 26 07:15:27 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 287047 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x00081b35.b77953b4 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
J3200 is Persistent
Oct 28 07:15:29 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 678828 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x0008b861.bc98b6b8 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
J3200 is Persistent
Oct 28 19:15:30 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 837396 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x0008dfad.09b8899c Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
J3200 is Persistent
Oct 29 07:15:29 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 372731 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x000906f7.a4081b04 Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
J3200 is Persistent
Oct 29 19:15:27 sparky SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 648491 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x00092e42.782a221c Corrected Memory Error on Slot A:
J3200 is Persistent

Does Sun treat all their customers like this?

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