[RE: Loose Cannon: Seven Days in May, Direct Newsline, Monday, November 05, 2007]
Traders at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) find your pooh-poohing the excitement of quarterly soybean production quite amusing, and mention they never heard of Direct Newsline, by the way. They added that if you know any Rolex dealers with a catalog to please forward them directly to CBOT before their spouses shut down all solicitations at home through Do Not Mail legislation.
Phil Claiborne
Director of Circulation
(The) Elks Magazine
Chicago
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I know I won’t be the only one to point out that the dates don’t match the days. My reason in sending this is to let you know that everybody makes mistakes, don’t let it get you down. And don’t let the rest of the jerks like me bother you at all. People in glass houses, etc. etc.
Have a great week, heaven knows we all do things like this once in a while.
Tom Saracco
Direct Access Marketing Services, Inc.
Syosset, NY
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As usual, a fun column.
I must say that I disagree with the Steve Job’s apology tour (not your version, but the true one).
With free will comes responsibility. If a consumer buys an item at the price offered by a merchant, it is his or her choice to do so. I never buy the first generation of anything since built into the price is the cost of development and the excitement of being the first on the block. And with that is the added pleasure of helping a manufacturer debug any 1.0 software or hardware.
Nope, I like to buy trailing-edge technology.
Miriam Bertram
Director of National Marketing
The Mail Group
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