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from Richmond.
Toler: Your policy on distributing gifts seems to favor only the good children. Is there any truth to the rumor that you maintain a list of who is naughty and who is nice? How do you decide? Is the list computerized?
Claus: We do maintain a list and as a matter of fact, we have recently received an alarming report about an individual in this room (hard stare directed to Arundel). We do have an email address, and we can be contacted on several elf-generated web pages. But there's no web search necessary to find the naughty and the nice.
Patti Snodgrass (news .editor, Loudoun Times-Mirror): Is there an invasion of privacy issue here, probing into people's personal lives to compile these "naughty and nice" lists?
Claus: There's no privacy issue when acts are conducted in public. Even the media (sometimes biased) report on those. We get a lot of our information from your newspapers.
Cindy Mahan (Rappahannock News): How do you maintain fair labor relations?
Claus: We customize conditions in the workshop. For one, because of the size of the elves, we minimize the use of floor space. Elves take up much less room than reporters, you might want to consider using elves at Times Community Newspaper.
There is a staggered work schedule, of course. We're very busy this time of year. Elves are economical in other ways. Because they are very long lived, they take a thousand years to retire and 400 years to vest.
Mahan: Has the Immigration a'nd Naturalization Service ever investigat
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