Gee, Hank, we Canadians can't afford those nifty intelligence gathering
satellites that you Americans have, so we use our museums, particularly
war museums, for gethering intelligence.  In this case, I guess they
didn't get it.

Kersti Krug
Museum of Anthropology
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Hank Burchard wrote:

> I followed Harry Needham(?)'s suggestion visit the Canadian War Museum
> site  and found that I could not get past the initial welcome and so forth
> without "becoming a member." This involves no money but requires you
> to fill out a long questionnaire giving one's age, education, income, mail
> address, phone numbers, household income and I don't know what-all.
>
> I just signed off, but I was quite irritated by such presumptive
> intrusiveness. Do Canadian public institutions routinely demand such
> personal information? Do Canadian citizens routinely submit to such
> impertinence?
>
>      Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC | USA
>