nol2105%dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil@dsac.dla.mil (Robert E. Zabloudil) (10/03/90)
In article <12535@accuvax.nwu.edu> Jeremy Grodberg <biosys!lia.com! jgro@cad.berkeley.edu> writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 674, Message 3 of 11 >I went into McDonalds today for dinner (or breakfast, depending you >how you look at it), and found more sleaze than usual there. It seems >that McDonalds has figured out how to legally run a sweepstakes for >profit, and once again 900 telephone service is the key. I was also unhappy to see this, but perhaps for slightly different reasons. My wife is a "McDonald's alumna", and has so much respect for that outfit that every time the budget gets tight, she talks about another return engagement. (Luckily, I'm doing better at talking her out of that masochistic tendency.) Incidentally, she does have a FT job already. Anyway, I blame NBC for this scam. After all, they get to charge more $$ if they can claim more people watching their shows, and guess how you get to find out the winning numbers? Oh, yes, they'll be posted at the drive-thru window at noon the next day, or you can call the 900 number, but they're counting on millions of people watching that night for their number. Incidentally, the fine print sez that all net proceeds from the phone calls will go to Ronald McDonald's Children Charities or somesuch, which is nice, but still doesn't change my opinion about the whole thing. Disclaimer: I'm not important in the Federal scheme of things; all opinions strictly my own, etc. Bob