> Suite 210, 1250 Oakmead Parkway... might be just a PO box. Some rent-an-address shops here
in the US call their boxes 'suites' to help give the impression of a physical space.
Oh, yes - absolutely. We have the same practice here in managed offices - you can rent space
in an office building with services like phone, fax and Internet by the hour - but each time
you arrive, you might be in a different physical office. I can see a demand for individual PO
box numbers coming, though.
What I did with the address search was something that's legislatively forbidden here with
phone numbers - a reverse look-up. You can buy CDs of every phone number in Europe, but the
Ts&Cs forbid you to suck them into a database for reverse lookup purposes.
Of course, you CAN do this on the Internet - so anyone finding the nmber in my .SIG could find
me pretty easily. In fact I'm the top hit on Google for both 07785 302803 and +44 7785
302803.
So it pays to be careful what you put in your .SIG.
This has implications in disclaimers - some people post here from munged addresses and then
add a disclaimer to the end of their message that contains their company name. All you have
to do is search Usenet ...
In
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=barclays+group:bit.listserv.ibm-main&hl=xx-bork&lr=lang_en|l
ang_de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=bit.listserv.ibm-main&start=10&sa=N several of the hits are
only there because the disclaimer contains "Barclays".
(I'm not picking on Barclays, BTW - it's just a short and unique word that helps to illustrate
the point.)
--
Phil Payne
http://www.isham-research.com
+44 7785 302 803
+49 173 6242039
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