Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: claris!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: They're Doing It Again (was Chicago Cubs Trash Bell) Message-ID:Date: 27 Sep 89 23:17:15 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Edward Greenberg Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175} Lines: 28 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 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 uunet!apple!netcom!edg