On 3/25/14 12:05 PM, DaleW wrote:

> After bouncing around various newsreaders that ceased operations, I
> started using Google Groups (partially to irritate Lipton). Then last
> week for a couple of days GG wasn't completing posts. So I used my
> Optonline/Cablevision account & Windows Mail to post a couple notes
> here. On one I missed that my email sig was attached by mail (with
> office phone number listed). So a day or two later I'm in office, and
> I get a call. "This (someone) from Montesquieu. You've been referred
> to me as someone who likes wine. So, tell me, do you like the red or
> the white?" I said "generally the purple" and hung up. I don't think
> anyone here is likely to buy from hard pressure telemarketers, but
> for the record Montesquieu (formerly Gerhardt) is pretty infamous for
> buying cheap private label stuff and passing off as the cult wine
> you've never heard of. I can't say for certain it was posting here
> that did it, but pretty strong coincidence that within a couple days
> I get a call at office- first cold call here in a decade.
>

Eek! Sorry to hear that, Dale. That's a lot of grief simply to
irritate me ;-)

Mark Lipton
(T'bird still works for me in a generic mail/news kinda sense)


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