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From: hart@cp1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Wrong Cliff (AT&T flame)
Message-ID: <813@cp1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 18:44:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 18:44:30 1984
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> ^^^^^ <- flames to burn the line eater bug!
> 
> I can't believe I am posting somthing to this newsgroup but it seemed the most
> appropriate place.
>  
>                      CLIFF ROBERTSON MISTAKEN
>  
> First a little background.. I work weekends at a 50,000 watt am radio station in
> San Antonio, Texas..  We have high volume trunkline service for our request line
> (512-470-KSJL) so that when we run contests we don't fry exchanges.
>  
> I decided to give another dj on the air a call on the request line from Austin
> (where I spend my weekdays)  I Was at a payphone so I figured might as well use
> the old ATT credit card (I only got 4 in the mail last month).  Well I dile the
> number, my credit card number, then got the "we are unable to complete your
> call as dialed, please check the number or ask the operator for assistance"
> recording.
>  
> I called the operator.
>  
> She tried it...
>  
> NO LUCK..
>  
> She gets the same recoprding.. and says thats not a good number.
>  
> I say "no that is a good number, its the radio station I work for!!!"
>  
> Being the helpful sort of operator she decided to call the San Antonio operator
> and find out what the problem was..
>  
> The San Antonio operator says "sorry there is a memo that says we can't help
> anyone calling a 470 number"
>  
> I said "HU????"
>  
> The Austin Operator said "but this is Austin calling, and we can't do it
> ourselves"
>  
> Well we went around and around with a supervisor or two in San Antonio none of
> whom would/could help.  I was ready to use that line I've always wanted to use
> on someone in the Bell system ("Could you please put me intouch with someone who
> has the authority to fire you?") but I held my toung.
>  
>     After giving up I asked my operator from Austin if she had any suggestions.
> She said no.  I chuckeled and said "guess i'd better try MCI" she didn't find
> the humor in this I had intended, and promptly hung up on me.
>  
>     I was a little hacked off by this point... So I forked over a quarter
> a quarter to try MCI.. By god it worked!! I got through.  I loved it!!  I then
> got really extravigant and tried SPRINT.. Wow! it worked too!
>  
>     Well after this mess I called up our Program director at the station
> and told him what happened.. We played around and tried it from Corpus Christi
> and it worked... We tried again from Austin and no luck.  We even thought about
> going on the air saying "Long distance callers should use an alternate long
> distance carrier as ATT won't let you call us"  but we dicided to wait and see
> if we could get it worked out.
>  
>     As I understand it we have to deal with the San Antonio & Austin divisions
> of SW Bell as well as ATT.  Who said the breakup would make anything "EASIER"?
>  
>     Cliff... not only have I found a phone ATT can't connect me with, I have
> found operators who won't help me either.
>  
>      Iffen you wanna write me about anything I said in here use the mail as I
> don't usually read this newsgroup.
> 
> -- 
> Austin Party Board   | BBS: 512-442-1116 |   UUCP: {noao,ut-sally,ut-ngp,charm}
> Blake Farenthold     | MCI: BFARENTHOLD  |         !utastro!blake
> 1804-A Cinnamon Path | CIS: 70070,521    | E-Pges: TEP115
> Austin, TX  78704    | STC: TCX023       | Delphi: blake

IT WAS'NT BROKE, BUT THEY FIXED IT ANYHOW!!!!!

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signed: Rod Hart (wa3mez)
	Minicomputer Technical Support District 
        Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co.
        A Bell Atlantic Company
        Silver Spring, Md.
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