Posted by CJM on 11/29/06 12:44

"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:4t3g4vF129ul5U2@mid.individual.net...
> Dylan Parry wrote:
>> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>>
>>> It doesn't need to be "collected".
>>
>> Of course it does! Who do you think geocodes new properties?
>
> They have to do that *anyway* to use the codes *themselves*. They don't
> have to do it all over again just to post the list so the rest of us have
> access to it.

So if they did need to use the data themselves, it would be wrong of them to
sell it at a profit to subsidize the cost of collection?? Next thing you
know we'll be asked to pay for postage for our letters!

It costs to collect the data and it costs to distribute the data.
Lots of other people want the data, and are prepared to pay for it.

....Not to sell it to them at a fair market price would constitute negligence
and mismanagement.

Anyone who thinks they should be able to buy Postcode data for �10 on a CD
is living in cloud-cuckoo-land... as they say in my neck of the woods
[sorry - don't have coordinates to hand!].

CJM

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