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- Date: 18 Aug 92 15:08:32 GMT
- From: daf1@gte.com (David Fay)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Downside of Automation
- Message-ID: <telecom12.640.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 640, Message 2 of 8
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- I thought the readers of this newsgroup would be amused at the
- following item I found in the Police News column of the Bolton (MA)
- Common. It illustrates an unanticipated disadvantage of automating
- collect calls. I would guess that in the old days the whole affair
- could have been quickly straightened out by an operator.
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- "A series of 25 or more collect calls to [a] Lancaster Road residence
- was reported to police Sunday night, August 2. The caller, who was
- calling a wrong number, talked over the computerized message that
- announces a collect call and accused the resident of having the
- caller's girlfriend with him, Police Chief Warren Wilson told the
- Common. The resident had advised New England Telephone. He later told
- police that the calls continued into the night."
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- David Fay daf1@gte.com
- GTE Laboratories 40 Sylvan Rd. Waltham, MA 02254
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