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credit card rip-off (fwd)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:45:06 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com> Date: December 10, 2005 8:33:17 PM ESTTo: "'Matt Murray'" <mattm () optonline net>, dave () farber net, Bob2-19-0501 () bobf frankston com, BobIP () bobf frankston com
Subject: RE: [IP] credit card rip-off (fwd) A quick search http://www.ecomxpo.com/Bio/Bio_RFernandes.htm http://www.webloyalty.com/ which takes us to http://www.webloyalty.com/rewards-programs-clients/welcome to the real world of retail and sales. Of course the senior doesn't
live at the call center.I was going to send a comment about why hospitals don't make better use of computers -- having been in the MIT Medical Decisions Making group thirty years ago and watching how amazed people are by even a dollop of computing in the medical arena it's another reminder that that you need to understand the characteristics and realities of each kind of business. As long as we take an all or nothing approach to using computation rather than allowing incremental learning by doing we'll have real barriers to implementation.
The hospitals know their business -- until they can casually add computational capabilities they'll be in the position of having to handcontrol over to those strange computing systems and that's asking too much.
For now watch the battle over the Telecom -- an industry that only exists to the extent it can control what its users do and extract value. Today the
battle is to take 3G from cellular and bring that control to landlines. Here we do know the power of incremental improvement and decoupling elements. Replacing the cellular protocols with off-the-shelf routers issomething we understand because computer people and networking people are
of the same cultural yet bellheads and netheads still can't communicatewith other and communicate is more than exchanging uninterpreted bits. And
Congress can't conceptualize peer-to-peer. Change is hard -- takes a generation to refresh the knowledge pool and trying to change more than one bit per generation is asking a lot. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Murray [mailto:mattm () optonline net] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 20:06 To: dave () farber net; Bob2-19-0501 () bobf frankston com; BobIP () Bobf Frankston com Cc: mattm () optonline net Subject: Re: [IP] credit card rip-off (fwd) Dear Prof. Farber,Ironically, most of the management team doesn't really exist in the public land records. Jeffery Kendall (SVP, IT & Ops) might show up in Weston, CT
(ex-Comp-U-Card guy). Martin Isaac, (SVP, Marketing, appears to live in Trumbull, CT). Gina CArey (VP, Finance) lives in Ridgefield, CT. Quite a feware ex-Comp-U-Card folks. The CEO, Richard or Rick Fernandes doesn't seem
to come up anywhere. I'd guess his home is in someone else's name.The company is located in the same building as the Multiple Listing Service
that I use. ;^) A mere 15 minutes from my home. Matt Murray Mobile 203.856.3703 MattM () optonline net www.mattmurray.org The Higgins Group/Christie's Great Estates www.higginsgroup.com 203.221.4600 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net> To: <ip () v2 listbox com> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:00 PM Subject: [IP] credit card rip-off (fwd) Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <Bob2-19-0501 () bobf frankston com> Date: December 10, 2005 5:37:35 PM EST To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com Subject: RE: [IP] credit card rip-off (fwd) Thanks for flagging this discovered my son was being billed for RESERVATIONREWARDS 800-732-7031 CT And also SHOPPERDISCOUNT.COM 800-889-8776 CT since July. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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