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From: claris!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg)
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Subject: Re: They're Doing It Again (was Chicago Cubs Trash Bell)
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Date: 27 Sep 89 23:17:15 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 413, message 3 of 9

In article  I write:

>"The A's announced plans for sale of tickets for any American League
>Championship Series at the Coliseum.

>"The sale, which begins at noon Thursday, will be by phone only through
>the BASS/Ticketmaster system.  Approximately 2000 ALC strips ... will be
>available. "

Yesterdays news indicates that Pacific Bell is taking specific steps
to avoid a fiasco like the one in Illinois.  They state that each CO
will send excess calls to recordings, so that the network doesn't come
to it's knees.

The news sounds like Pacific Bell is doing something new to protect
against overload, not that the facility has always been in place.  Of
course, this was a PR person talking to the news, and perhaps he was
simplifying.  He also made the point that Bass receives calls from
four different CO's in four different area codes, rather than one central
CO being on the receiving end.

Well, it's an hour and a half away from H-Hour, (the Giants are doing
the same thing tonight) so we'll see, I guess.  Me -- I'm off to the
ballgame.
				-edg

Ed Greenberg
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