Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!BUIT1.BU.EDU!jsol From: jsol@BUIT1.BU.EDU Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: Directory assistance & long-distance routing Message-ID: <8612310101.AA02009@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 00:15:06 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612310101.AA02009 Posted: Wed Dec 24 00:15:06 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 00:36:41 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 6 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu I believe that Directory Assistance uses special trunks to complete and there are only a fixed number of those trunks. Getting you to hang up and dial the number yourself causes you to use one of their normal trunks which they have far more of ... --jsol