RE: C&S throwing down the gauntlet?

Dan Lester (ALILESTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu)
Sat, 14 May 94 16:52:29 MST 

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Date:         Sat, 14 May 94 16:52:29 MST
From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject:      RE: C&S throwing down the gauntlet?
To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-modernization@cni.org>
In-Reply-To:  Message of Fri, 13 May 1994 10:42:17 -0400 from


On Fri, 13 May 1994 10:42:17 -0400 Richard Layman said:
>> According to a Monday Wall Street Journal Article, C&S got $50,000 in
>> business as a result of the Green Card debacle.
> 
>I guess I find that hard to believe.  C&S "claimed" that they got
>$50,000 in business.  But they haven't substantiated that claim.

   Of course not.  And they never will.  And no one can make them, 
since they are a private firm with no obligation of disclosure to anyone 
but the IRS.

>However, I would agree that they've received hundreds of thousands
>of dollars in value of publicity.  And, I'm sure some people will
>go to them because they believe that a lawyer who will go to those
>lengths to @X#$, I mean upset someone may be worth retaining.

   The kissing grandfather story has already been related.  Similar 
is a theater maxim:  "I don't care whether the review is good or bad,
just be SURE you spell my name right."   And that makes sense, as
some of the highest compliments I've ever received have been flames
from certain complete idiots.  o-)

   Although C@S.com (or whatever they become) may or may not be
successful, and I predict they will NOT be in the long run, and NOT
because of outside legislation or control, I think the future is indeed
the 'yellow pages' model that a number of gopher and WWW servers have
already shown.  In fact, I'd bet the only reason we haven't seen yet
yellowpages.com or 'http://yellowpages.com/home.html' yet is the
probably tight control that Ma Bell and her offspring have on the
apellation.

cyclops

Dan Lester
<alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu>

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