Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!steinmetz.UUCP!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Party Lines" Message-ID: <10797@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 11 May 88 15:59:46 GMT References: <8805080903.1.124@cup.portal.com> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: kbsvax.steinmetz!davidsen@uunet.UU.NET (William E. Davidsen Jr) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu 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