Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: vances@xenitec.uucp (Vance Shipley) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Brother's Solution (really: 12345678) Message-ID:Date: 16 Aug 89 01:02:21 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: vances@egvideo.UUCP (Vance Shipley) Organization: Linton Technology - SwitchView Lines: 18 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 3 of 9 In article goldstein@delni.enet.dec. com writes: >So when he opened a new exchange near some mining camp or other such >outpost (using Harris D-1200 PBXs as COs, btw), Ma gave him the prefix >"234". Gee, that's a nice one, though Art. Until he noticed thousands >of incompleted pegs to a vacant number. Yep, 234-5678. What I liked was his solution to the problem; he installed an answering machine and started turning them into billable calls! Vance Shipley uucp: ..!{uunet!}watmath!xenitec!vances Linton Technology - SwitchView INTERNET: vances@egvideo.uucp 180 Columbia Street West (soon) vances@xenitec.uucp Waterloo, Ontario CANADA tel: (519)746-4460 N2L 3L3 fax: (519)746-6884 # if it ain't got an interface it ain't much use! #