Hi Rt!
On 11-17-96 at 09:44:25AM, Rt Pollock of 1:229/420 wrote to August Abolins:
 AA>> I just learned that Bell Canada is now accepting email addresses to
 AA>> be printed along with one's name in the phone book! 
 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> very much better diversified in a business sense than what most ISP's
 RP> are prepared to readily accept. To the Big Guys, an ISP outfit is a
 RP> cheap buy: they'll soon start flexing their muscles, I think, to
 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-line info that would normally be in the YP: company name and phone 
number.  She didn't seem to know about the "Email" listings.   Hmmm...
..August
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