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Date:  Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:31:17 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] PlaceSite - Reinventing Wi-Fi Community

  :-)  You see, where there's a will, there's a way...

On 06/23/2005 10:45 pm, Neil Waldhauer thus wrote :
> Here on the caffeine-saturated left coast, the problem seems to be solved by
> abundance. So many places offer free WiFi now, that it just isn't a scarce
> commodity.
>
> Table space, however was already in short supply, even before WiFi. The
> baristas won't hesitate to throw out a "bum" who is hogging a table with his
> laptop if there are customers waiting for a table.
>
> Neil
>
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:47:17 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal
> <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Or "pay-for-fee" venues. Hautspot offers the pre-paid codes, which meter 
>> the time online. This helps cut down on the abuse.
>> ___
>> Lewis
>> ___
>> Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLE
>> Rosenthal & Rosenthal
>> Sent via SnapperMail
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>>
>> ...... Original Message .......
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:37:18 -0400 (EDT) "Stanley Sidlov" 
>> <stanleys@cybernex.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:28:56 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> but what possible interest can he have in whether they are
>>>> oblivious to anyone around them?
>>>>
>>>> People who live in crowded cities do their damndest to be oblivious of 
>>>>         
>> anyone
>>     
>>>> around them; that's what keeps them sane.
>>>>         
>>> The cafe owners started the cafe as a meeting place for people, not for 
>>>       
>> them to be 
>>     
>>> oblivious. Some of these have entertainment too, and they don't like 
>>>       
>> someone coming in 
>>     
>>> with their Ipods on and listening to that. 
>>>
>>> As for Lewis' remark on the Panera lunchtime, it seems to me that it would 
>>>       
>> be proper for 
>>     
>>> them to go to the guy when he comes in, and ask if he's going to have 3 
>>>       
>> people meet him, 
>>     
>>> and if he answers no, then to direct him to a table for two and reduce the 
>>>       
>> losses. On the 
>>     
>>> other hand, they may know him, and he may come in there daily and actually 
>>>       
>> be a customer. 
>>     
>>> What ever happened to 'cover charges' ? Seems like the next step.
>>>       

-- 
Lewis
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