Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: iwarp.intel.com!iwarpq0.intel.com!merlyn@omepd.intel.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Bay of Eagle Fiasco Message-ID:Date: 16 Aug 89 16:35:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 302, message 8 of 9 In article you write: |>OK, gang, another mystery from the AT&T system of the late 1960s-early 1970s: | |>Once upon a time, my brother (who was about ten years old at the time) picked |>up the phone and dialed: | |>1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 | |>[Moderator's Note: I just now tried it of curiosity. Dialing 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 |>sent me to immediate intercept with a message saying, "When dialing a call |>outside the 312 area, you must dial '1' before the number. When calling |>within 312, do not dial '1' first." PT] | |Here I got 'the number you have dialed has been disconnected or no longer in |service. If you feel that you have dailed the correct number, please hang |up and try again. Thank you. A local freebie classified-ads paper owner paid $BIG$ $MONEY$ for the right to use the phone number 234-5678 for his paper. Within one month, he had so many kids calling 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 on the phone blocking his lines, he just stuck an answer-only answering machine on the line telling them to call some other number to place a classified ad. Them's the breaks... -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/