On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:22:09 GMT, "BillyBob"
wrote:


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.


If a contractor does a good job for us, we are very
happy to give him a reference: there are few enough
of them so it's a small way of saying thank you.