From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp*lib.org)
Date: Sat Dec 13 1997 - 23:32:07 MST
My strong sense is that the creators of the criteria (not, it is worth
noting, the author of the piece) were looking specifically for *marketing
opportunities*. Either direct or indirect. Junk faxes, junk cold call
voicemail, junk pages included. *Shudder*.
Consider: if you own a PCS cellphone with integrated paging and voicemail,
you get three points with one product.
Consider: a Palm Pilot was probably not counted as a laptop (I am surmising
here). Why? Shareware SW predominates.
I think my explanation is plausible.
>work (here I work as a Webmaster), because I lack a cell phone and
>pager. Sometimes even the connected want to be unreachable.
Spot on.
>Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
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