Direct mail is a broad term that includes the following types of mailed promotions: Institutional direct mail serves to promote the name of the publishing house with no reasonable expectation of sales revenues.
The touch command is the easiest way to create new, empty files. It is also used to change the timestamps (i.e., dates and times of the most recent access and modification) on existing files and directories. touch's syntax is. touch [option] file_name(s)
Before the touch-tone phone, of course, rotary dials were the rule. There is no doubt that the touch-tone key pad was designed to mimic the rotary dial with the 1 on top and the 7-8-9 on the bottom. According to Bob Ford, of AT&T's Bell Laboratories, a second reason was that some phone-company research concluded that this configuration helped eliminate dialing errors.