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From: amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman)
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Subject: Re: US Sprint Rep Responds to Comments in the Digest
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Date: 8 Aug 89 19:14:47 GMT
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In article  eli@chipcom.com quoth:
>I talked to my pal at US Sprint.  he responded to the following 3 questions:
>[...]
> .. "The shutdown was not for all of Port Authority / Grand Central, it
>   was just for a few payphones that were causing the trouble.  John Doe
>   is probably better off being prohibited from using the phone than if
>   he did use the phone and someone watched over his shoulder, stole his
>   FONcard number, and racked up thousands of calls on his bill."

Considering that said phones are not *labelled* as such, Mr. Doe would
probably try his call, have his Sprint account ripped off anyway, and
then go through the further inconvienience of having to retry the call
somewhere else...

Andrew Boardman
amb@cs.columbia.edu
(or, if you must, ab4@cunixc for bitnet people)