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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: City Directory?
Message-ID: <1273@becker.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 01:31:43 GMT
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Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
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In article <2721@client1.DRETOR.UUCP> mmt@client1.DRETOR.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes:
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|Does anyone know anything about a company called "MIGHT DIRECTORIES"
|Div or R.L.Polk & Co. Ltd"?  We have received a slip headed
|"Important Request from the publisher of the local city directory"
|to provide them with a list of the occupants, their occupations, and
|employers for the house, along with the phone number and whether the
|house is owned or rented.  This seems a lot more than should be going
|into a city directory.  Are these people legitimate?  Is it reasonable
|to fill this slip out in whole or part and return it, or is there a
|significant privacy issue here?  If this is a city directory at all,
|why is a private company involved?  I realize that the information might
|well get into private hands even from a publicly owned database, but
|the idea of giving it directly to a private company doesn't seem right.
|Anyway, I'm going to wait a few days before returning the slip, if I
|do so at all, to see whether there is any useful net reaction.

	I happen to have a Might Directory for 1920 -
	at that time they were at 74-76 Church Street
	in Toronto.  I think they were established in
	1875.

	I'm not sure about R. L. Polk,  but I seem to
	recall that they were doing picture postcards
	in the first half of the century. Somehow the
	idea of maps is associated with their name in
	my mind, perhaps mistakenly...

Cheers,
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