Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!brl.arpa!cmoore From: cmoore@BRL.ARPA (Carl Moore, VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: prompt tone, etc. Message-ID: <8511010009.AA04124@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 15:05:37 EST Article-I.D.: ucb-vax.8511010009.AA04124 Posted: Thu Oct 31 15:05:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:30:27 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 Approved: telecom@ucbvax.berkeley.edu In my recent credit-card calls, I have noticed that the prompt tone is shorter and softer than it used to be. I have seen comments about 617-460 not being reachable from some long-distance point. I recall trying to place 0+ call within Md. to 850 prefix and finally had to ask the operator to call it. (850 was new and not yet recognized by the system although I was dialing a working number?) I hear from a lecture on flirting that some people have had bad experiences which harm later flirting; one such experience is receiving a wrong phone number when the couple has to break off a conversation. I wonder in what ways would the phone # be wrong? 10 dialed from my residence phone (302-731) used to get the local operator without waiting for timeout, but equal access apparently put an end to that.