On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> 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

   Sorry. I should have said "snoopiness" instead of "nosiness." I see
from your signature that you are a *professional* snoop.


     Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC | USA