William I am sorry, I don't have time to read all the other emails. A friend just pointed out that my name was mentioned and I figured that I should respond. I tend to read the first post on a topic, if it is not of interest, I ignore any subsequent posts.
As I said, I am sure that our customers would not be too happy about our providing their contact information to the public without first getting their approval. They provided that information to us for the express purpose of allowing us to contact them in case of an issue with their data. We value their privacy. I am pretty sure that the customers of the other VANs would not approve of it either. Doug PS: See you at the X12 meeting next week? > -----Original Message----- > From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:21 PM > To: EDI-L Mailing List > Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: <MISC> EDI Coordinator Trading > Partner Contacts > > > > Doug, you may have to read all the e-mails on this thread, especially > mine! I have no interest whatsoever in building "a list and companies > that are interested can post contacts." Developing such open-ended > software - with all the attendant verification and maintenance > headaches - is a non-starter. > > No, what I said I would do was to take the TP directories > from large and > reputable VANs, like Kleinschmidt, and consolidate the > information into > a public directory. Neither starting the list (after all, > your VAN and > the others would be providing the raw material), nor maintaining it > (Kleinschmidt can send incremental updates on a daily or weekly basis) > would be much of a problem. The data will be practically > 100% complete > and reliable that way. > > End users (of the VANs) would not update their trading partner > information directly; this information would come only from the VANs. > You can send your trading partner directory to me in XML; that's no > problem, as I'm sure I can figure it out. Don't have any fear: your > competitors will not be able to "troll the Novannet directory for > targets to poach." Why would your customers mind having a central > directory where their trading partners can easily find them? Heck, if > they're paranoid, we can even have an opt-out feature whereby they can > mask their telephone numbers. Wouldn't Kleinschmidt benefit by having > its customers easily reachable (via Kleinschmidt, of course) by new > trading partners? > > William J. Kammerer > Novannet > Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA > +1 (614) 487-0320 > . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
