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From: claris!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg)
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Subject: They're doing it again (was Chicago Cubs Trash Bell)
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Date: 26 Sep 89 20:59:13 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 410, message 4 of 9

In Today's San Francisco Chronicle (reprinted without permission:)

"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. "

Phone numbers are in the 408-988, 415-762, 707-762, 916-932, 209-226,
209-466, and 1-800-225 prefixes.  All numbers suffix with 2277 which
is (surprise!) BASS.

Does anybody know if these are "Choke" exchanges?  If not, I think
phone service in northern CA is going to be history on Thursday at
noon.  :-)

Ed Greenberg
uunet!apple!netcom!edg

[Moderator's Note: Meanwhile, the Illinois Bell outage last Friday night
continues to stir controversy here. The figures are in now, and it appears
there were  -- yes, million! -- call attempts to
Ticketron between Friday, 6 PM and Sunday midnight. Between 25,000 - 30,000
actually got through to purchase tickets. Some pizza delivery manager, in
his ignorance, is talking about a class action lawsuit against Bell
due to the business he lost because pizza orders could not get through to
his establishment. Well, I was off line on the modem here for almost an
hour! I disconnected from a BBS at 6:02 PM, and could not raise dial tone
without the modem timing out for several hours. To get into the Northwestern
Annex box Friday night, I clicked on my speakerphone, listened in the
background to the clicks, pops and cross-talk (it was wild Friday night!)
and worked at my desk. Once dial tone came crashing through, I quickly
jumped on the modem, dialed manually, cut off the speaker and hoped to
goodness that I would ring through, which I did. It was a gas!   PT]