"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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Sorry, that won't wash. A contractor is not going to ask for personal
references, but only to have people who are satisfied with his work make a
statement to that effect.

With the expansion of telephone solicitation, email spam, and junk mail
we've seen in the last two decades, more people are remiss to give out their
contact information for any purpose whatsoever. That doesn't have anything
to do with lawyers, but it often is labled as privacy.

Bob