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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
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Date: 3 Apr 91 03:47:41 GMT
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nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
> In article <6NT2T1F@taronga.hackercorp.com> peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >The sales droid then finds out that he's losing customers to word-of-mouth,

> Word-of-mouth only works when you have a community.

Most people I know do have friends they talk to. People who tend to be in
the same SES and shop at the same places. These form a community.

> Frankly I think this is one of the most important reasons for expanding the
> electronic frontier - it's one of the reasons why I spend five or six hundred
> dollars a year running a BBS.

Trust me. There *are* other communities.
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               (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com)
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