Message-ID: <14365701.1075857104172.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:35:00 -0800 (PST) From: clickz.today.txt@my.clickz.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: Are Your Suppliers Loyal? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: ClickZ Today X-To: "alewis@ect.enron.com" X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Andrew_Lewis_Dec2000\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: Lewis-A X-FileName: alewis.nsf |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| C L I C K Z T O D A Y Tuesday, December 12 2000 The Internet's Leading Resource http://www.clickz.com/ for Doing Business Online___________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This e-mail is optimized for mono-spaced typefaces. 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