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Well, that makes sense, doesn't it? Back in "the day" when certain US companies were trying to convert all the Whitepages and Yellowpages nation-wide into CD-ROMs, they'd ship phonebooks from each zip-code to China to have them triple entered (error correction), and then that's where the nation-wide CD-ROM phone-books came from. This is the same deal, no?


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