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From: Dean Riddlebarger <dean@truevision.com>
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Subject: Re: US West and the War on Drugs
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Date: 12 Apr 90 01:56:30 GMT
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Yeesh, what a PR gimmick!  It smacks of the bandwagon effect in terms
of moral content, but it is elegant in the way it calms the community
for a little while.  Now let's see ... if I'm a dealer using a paging
setup I'm probably not using it for major end-user sales, but rather
for a wholesale link.  So if this move screws with my logistics in the
short term, I just run down to the local electronic supply and grab a
handful of the hand-held tone units.  [Remember those?  Right after
divestiture people with rotary home phones were buying them like crazy
so they could access their new MCI etc. accounts.]

Kinda sounds like another situation along the lines of the '900
numbers for porn' controversy.  Pity the telcos have to get dragged
into the middle of it all.


dean riddlebarger
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dean@truevision.com