Re: email in the phone books!
 
>  AA>> I believe that this is a sneaky way of Bell to conduct a survey to
>  AA>> find out who is "connected" with an ISP and to find out what
>  AA>> customers are not with Bell's own Sympatico. 
>  RP> Methinks BELL is smarter than what you suggest... She could buy the
>  RP> mailing lists from ISP's and then target listees for direct mailings
>  RP> _at the same time_ she sends her monthly phone bill (in the same
>  RP> envelope, no less). Quite nicely sidesteps CanPost's recent decision
>  RP> to not handle junk mail, too...
>  RP> ISP's are definitely becoming more and more vulnerable to such
>  RP> "attacks" these days no question about it. The Big Guys, like Bell,
>  RP> Sprint and Rogers, for example, have much Deeper Pockets...and are so
>  RP> absorb the smaller ISP's - if this hasn't already begun !..
> I asked a few question about the "email listings" to my TeleDirect (that's
> Yellow Pages for those of you who don't know).   She said that they offer a
> "free" listing on there internet site, but the info there is the same 
one-lin
That would be nice, but the real world is very different from the hype. In a
recent visit to the world's largest auto show the Sema, I discovered that non
of the business listed their email address, in dealing with about 600 of
them, only three readily gave out their email address, and two of them were
by accident. Meaning some edp or misc person had it, but the sales or ceo
were not really using it.
--- VFIDO 6.20.00 Gamma Candidate 1
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