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[Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>]

.:> In 2000 direct marketing sales were 1.71 trillion dollars and accounted
.:> for almost 10% of the US Economy. 
.:
.:  Where did those figures come from? I find it difficult to
.:believe that the telemarketing scum is 10% of the GDP. What
.:in the world is included in that figure?

I'm betting that some (or a lot) of that figure is order-by-phone services 
(Dell, Ticketmaster, etc) -- the places that always tell you about their 
special offers when you call to place an order.  There's always some 
person (read: "sucker") who'd inevitably decide to try the special offer.

OTOH, much like the RIAA figures, these *are* statistics.  And we know 
exactly what percentage of statistics are pulled directly from some *ss's 
hole.

--s

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