Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Mail order, rip-off, anger .... Message-ID: <5990@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:37:48 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5990 Posted: Wed Sep 25 17:37:48 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:37:48 EDT References: <1537@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <721@terak.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 > ... I stay the > heck away from any operation which uses a "Suite" number in their > mailing address. That is usually not a suite number, but rather a > box number at one of those "rent-a-mailbox" operations. The mail > order operator can then disappear without a trace *very* easily. Then you may have difficulty ordering, for example, draft ANSI standards. Yes, the address for CBEMA (which handles such things for ANSI) contains a suite number! "Beware of generalizations, including this one." -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com