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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (N. Ersha)
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Subject: Re: ATT perceived as threatening?
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 14:50:15 EDT
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What bothers me about this whole thing is the assumed
intelligence level of the "average" telephone user.

I mean, how difficult is it to understand the following 
sentence:

"You will soon be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to change
the company providing your long distance service--if you don't indicate a 
choice, you may have your service changed anyway."

I know the average consumer CAN be pretty ridiculous at times
(even me :-)), but you'd have to be moronic to not understand
the personal IMPLICATIONS of the industry's changes.  The REASONS 
for the changes I'll leave to the lawyers and politicians (They
can HAVE them!)

Reminds me of the article/editorial I read last weekend.  It seems
some company (Del Monte?) got a lot of flack for removing the heating
instructions from their cans of corn.  Consumers were confused.  How 
difficult could it possibly be?  "Place corn in pan. Heat"

				Sheeeeeeesh!
			
				Scott Berry