RE: International Who's Who of information Technology

They scan mags and stuff too.  A cooworker was mentioned in a mag and was
called for it because of that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Baker [mailto:Art_Baker@baan.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 10:03 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: International Who's Who of information Technology
> 
> 
> Ken,
>       I received an invitation also to be in the Who's Who's 
> book. It is
> still sitting on my desk. $400 is a lot of money for a book. 
> Who do you
> think would buy this book? Only the people who are in it!
>       I wonder how they got our names. I called them and they 
> indicated it
> was probably from someone submitting my name. I'm going to 
> take a wild guess
> here and say that, I had ordered some Redbooks and they had 
> picked up my
> name from that somehow.
> Art
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graap, Ken [mailto:keg@exchange.gasco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:27 AM
> To: 'Midrange'
> Subject: International Who's Who of information Technology
> 
> 
> I've been contacted by a representative from the 
> "International Who's Who of
> Information Technology" for inclusion in their 2000 directory.
> 
> It was an interesting interview, however, it ended with a 
> relatively high
> pressure pitch to sell me a copy of the book for $400....
> 
> When I asked to think it over for a day the sales pressure 
> was increased. I
> finally told them I wasn't interested.
> 
> Needless to say, I am a bit skeptical.
> 
> I'm wondering if any of you have heard anything about this
> publication/organization?
> 
> Kenneth
> 
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