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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:20:19 GMT
- From: dave@westmark.com (Dave Levenson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Calling 1-800 Can Cost You a Fortune
- Message-ID: <telecom13.20.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Westmark, Inc.
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 20, Message 6 of 17
- Lines: 28
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- I think that the public, or at least, the readers of this Digest, can
- help correct this problem ... for every non-toll-free 800 number you
- can find, share it with as many friends as you can. Then, whenever
- you have some time to kill and you're near a public telephone, place
- lots of calls to these numbers. When the telco or other public
- telephone provider starts getting these bills, they'll probably use
- their clout with regulatory agencies to suppress such use of the 800
- service access code.
-
- Any thoughts on this?
-
-
- Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com
- Westmark, Inc. UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave
- Warren, NJ, USA Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: And you also are invited to read my comments on
- this in an earlier message in this issue. It just won't work any
- longer; the astrologers and Tarot practitioners don't want any more BS
- from the deadbeats of the world (like all good TELECOM Digest
- Moderators) ... Mystic Marketing says cut it out, now! To be sure you
- do, they've got the number of the payphones at the local 7/11 or bus
- station, or wherever you are when you get the urge. :) By all means
- though, keep trying; let's be sure they get their data base as complete
- as possible. :) PAT]
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