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To: Greg Ronan who wrote (5264)	8/14/1998 6:41:00 PM
From: GlobalMarine	Respond to of 11603

Greg: If you call up a car dealer wanting info on a vehicle, would you be willing to hand over your name, address and phone no. before a car salesperson would speak to you? If you call up a store wanting to know merely what time they close, would you appreciate having to disclose the same info beforehand? Do you think it's wrong for the phone companies to provide a call blocking service so that those with caller ID cannot see an incoming phone number? This isn't 1984. Privacy is a virtue, not a vice, and IR does not need to know your address and phone number, and perhaps even your name isn't important. Moreover, some companies' IR dept. will put you on their mailing list for hype (oops, I mean press) releases and even phone you to hype their stock. Would you appreciate getting unsolicited phone calls? The DJIA and S&P500 companies generally do not engage in such intrusive tactics as demanding name, rank and serial number before they will speak to you because they know it'll piss off potential shareholders. Yes, they may have you leave your name and number on their voice mail to await a return call, but that is only because they get so many calls, they have to put you in the queue. Finally, investors are investors, not vendors or customers of the company, so the notion of disclosing name, address and number doesn't apply because investors aren't doing business with them. OK, suppose some people with malicious intent call up requesting info to help their cause. IR cannot give out insider info anyway, so what's to worry about? Rand