When IDG goes too far...

Crawford Rainwater crawford.rainwater at itec-co.com
Thu Sep 5 10:09:23 PDT 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: augie [mailto:schwer at sonic.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Re: When IDG goes too far...
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:38:10AM -0700, Dustin Mollo wrote:
> > This morning, was my most interesting call.  It was from Dunn 
> and Bradstreet
> > wanting to update their records for the North Bay Linux Users 
> Group.  You
> > ever try to tell D&B that you aren't a real company nor are you a real
> > non-profit?  I hate it when I don't fit into a box.  heh...
> 
> i gave my work phone number, and last week i got a call from them
> wanting to "update" their info. the funny part is that the company
> name and tittle i used was:
> 
> College Sucks Inc.
> Chief Nerd
> 
> i guess they'll try anything.
> 

Hence why I make our marketing folks go through the
lists. ;-)  You would be surprised at some of the ones
we have seen...LOL

--- Crawford



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