Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!emcard!dekalb!greg
From: greg@dekalb.UUCP (Greg Philmon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MAIL ORDER IN IL is DEAD.
Message-ID: <729@dekalb.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 20:59:26 GMT
References: <2495@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <670016@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: greg@dekalb.UUCP (Greg Philmon)
Organization: PC Systems Consultants, Atlanta, GA
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In article <670016@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> johne@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes:
>Checks and credit cards leave a paper trail that your state IRS can
>easily follow. All they need to do is go to any of the big mail order
>houses and obtain a list of customers from your state. [rest deleted]

	And what in the world is compelling the "big mail order house"
	to give out the names of their customers?  Sure, you can probably
	BUY their mailing list, but that won't tell you what (if anything)
	that person bought.

	If some mail order place I do business with cheerfully handed over
	my purchase records to anyone, I would cease to be a customer.

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