In a message dated 97-01-10 17:41:28 EST, you write:

<<  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? >>

This is known as marketing research, to label it 'nosiness' and to assign
this action to a people of another country is inexperienced at best and
impertinent at worse.

Jeanine M. Prickett
Consultant - Prospect Research and Development
St. Louis, MO