Hi all,

I must say, that I appreciate Peter's generous offer to consolidate the
Blind Fun stuff at the address of his choice, whereupon he would then
redistribute it.

Then, as a recipient of both message groups and dependant upon my needs
at the moment of decision, I will be better able to practice swidden
agriculture on either group of messages at the filter level, thereby
accelerating my mail reading process.  It is, I must add, a real treat
for me to access the VICUG List (I have filtered as BlindJobList) to
find only the type of information that follows this message.
This is, after all, the reason I signed on.

gg

-----Edited Original Message-----
From: Kelly     Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 7:13 AM
Subject: customer service jobs automate

...speech recognition has improved
>so much that it is being seen more in commercial applications.  At the
>same time, the customer service career path for blind persons is in
>jeopardy with widespread deployment of this technology.
>
>kelly
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In part, the following:

>     "One of the main sources for new jobs for the middle class over
the
>     past 15 years have been telephone sales and information-related,"
>     said Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor, who is a
>     professor of economic and social policy at Brandeis University.
>     "Now all those jobs are on the line."
>
>                 Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company