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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@spectrum.cmc.com>
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Subject: Re: AT&T 800 Directory
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Date: 7 Aug 90 17:51:41 GMT
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In article <10507@accuvax.nwu.edu> CRW@icf.hrb.com (Craig R. Watkins)
writes:

>I seem to receive the {AT&T Toll-Free 800 Directory, Consumer Edition}
>year after year for free for just returning a post-paid card that AT&T
>sends to me.  From what I can tell, AT&T really does SELL these
>things, but mine comes with "A special gift for a special customer"
>printed on the cover.  No friends that I've asked receive them.

>Anyone else get this book for free?  Have any idea why they send it to
>you?  Just curious after all these years ...

I get it for free, too, and always promptly throw it out. When they
first sent me this piece of junk, I tried to look up 5 or 6 companies
that I might want to call, and they weren't in there. This is NOT a
complete directory of 800 numbers, nor even of ATT's 800 numbers. This
is a directory of "selected, consumer-oriented ATT-based 800 numbers"
that were willing to pay to get included. What a waste of trees.


Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer
CMC Rockwell  lars@CMC.COM