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Stella January · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 4

Two things to remember:

1) In the Bay Area, anything within about sixty miles of San Francisco is "close enough." I live one valley over from Napa, an hour's drive from the city, and easily a quarter of my town works there. So no one here would consider having a business office in the city a big deal.

2) However, in a sort of contradictory note, it's also not uncommon for businesses with websites to print the webmaster's contact info, rather than the actual business contact info. Maybe it's because they want all techie questions directed to the webmaster; maybe it's because officially, online business is done via this address, whatever. My guess would be that since Dana is the indentured techie slave, Margaret just lets her handle all the internet business. Perhaps a potential customer contacts Dana with the request, but she then passes it on to Margaret, who ships the honey from her Napa address (with the Napa business return label).

Given that, though, I don't think it's a bad idea to keep in mind that we have several different addresses for the "real-life" IG characters. It's not unlikely that Melissa or another one of the AIs/processes could figure out Margaret's physical address in the same way we have...