[10607] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Power of of old telecommunications technology.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elizabeth L. Brown)
Tue Sep 10 21:47:08 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:41:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@loc.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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Good for you, Bill Drew!!
By the way, The U.S. Government Manual is available online at:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara001.html
(Still not as easy to use as a hard-copy for quick look-ups.)
Betty Brown
At 07:05 PM 9/9/96 -0500, Bill Drew wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>An incident this morning has clearly demonstrated the power of older
>technologies and how they are not yet obsolete.
>
>This morning on my way to work I was tailgated for over 5 miles by a man
>in military uniform driving a vehicle from the federal Interagency Motor
>Pool. This group is administered by the Government Services
>Administration. He was less than 5 feet from my bumper at speeds
>ranging from 45 mph to 55 mph on a road known locally as very dangerous
>at speeds above the speed limit of 55 mph. I wrote down the plate
>number and description of the vehicle. I wanted to report him to the
>appropriate agency.
>
>I tried without much luck to locate a phone number in local directories
>for the GSA. I then went to U.S. Government Manual and found the main
>number for GSA in Washington, DC. They then gave me the number for
>fleet operations (202-755-0292). I reported the incident. They will be
>contacting the appropriate persons to look into the incident.
>
>I drew a couple of "morals" from this incident. The telephone is still
>the one of the most powerful communication and information tools we have
>in our arsenal of tools. The human contact and one to one voice
>communications is still the most effective means of transmitting
>information in many circumstances.
>
> The second one is if you are going to tailgate using a government
>vehicle, don't get behind a librarian!!
>--
>Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill") Serials/Reference/Systems Librarian
>SUNY College of Ag. & Tech.; P.O. Box 902; Morrisville, NY 13408-0902
>Internet: DREWWE@SNYMORVA.CS.SNYMOR.EDU
>Phone: (315)684-6055 or 684-6060 Fax: (315)684-6115
>Homepage: http://www.snymor.edu/~drewwe/
>Not Just Cows Homepage: http://www.snymor.edu/~drewwe/njc/
>LibraryLinks: http://www.snymor.edu/pages/library/
>--
>
>
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