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Subject:Making friends with the receptionist From:Patrick O'Connell <patricko -at- EICON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:30:00 PST
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 21:41:07 -0700
>From: lori m long <llong -at- UNM -dot- EDU>
>Subject: Re: Testing
>
>If you have a phone number for the company, my favorite trick is calling
>and making friends with the receptionist. The person who answers the
>phone usually has a tremendous amount of information about the company
>and the people working there. (HINT: Call around 3:00 in the afternoon,
>or some other suitably dead time of day for phones.)
>
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Ooooh, that's a GOOD one! I'm gonna write that one down!
Pat O'
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