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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 194, message 6

I just caught up on the last month and a half, so this addresses a number
of things.

976:  I wasn't aware that the whole thing was *that* much of a fraud [I refer
to the service-employed "keep it hot" people].  I've never been in favor of
legislation protecting the citizen from himself, but this really *cries out*
to have something done about it.  They are making a mint by causing lonely,
depressed people to eventually wind up more depressed, I'll warrant.  Now,
to the original poster of this info:  Can you document this [aside from the
ads in the paper]?

Pat Townson sez:
   ... I found this wallet size card in the dumpster behind the IBM Plaza
   downtown. Obviously I did not find the machine to go with it!

Hmm, out for a trashing run?  Weren't various LOC officials up in arms
about the high school kids finding all kinds of proprietary info in dumpsters
behind business offices and such?

Don't worry -- I routinely find discarded equipment and all kinds of useful
flotsam that hotels or yuppie office complexes or even our own building
simply tossed out.  Don't forget, this is the "age of waste"..

CLASS calling:  They're starting to play with this in my area, offering
the services associated with calling-number identification [call-last-back,
trace-last-call, screen-given-number, etc] and of course along with this
goes the show-me-calling-number service, which requires the outboard box
with the display unit.  My question: Where is the protocol for this thing
given?  There's no way I'm going to *buy* one.

_H*