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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: "Party Lines"
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Date: 11 May 88 15:59:46 GMT
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In article <8805080903.1.124@cup.portal.com> Kenneth_R_Jongsma@cup.portal.COM writes:
>I think it's interesting the way the phone companies are selling
>something that used to be free.
>
>When I was in high school, it quickly became known when one of the
>local telco's recorded announcement machine was broken.

  We found that there was one busy signal for the entire exchange, and
that you could speak a word at a time between the beeps. I met a lot of
girls that way...
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me