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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 18:16:14 EST
- From: jeffj%jiji@uunet.UU.NET (Jeffrey Jonas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: The Ultimate Call Screener
- Message-ID: <telecom13.1.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 1, Message 10 of 13
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- I recall a story about an author who devised a doorbell that worked as
- follows: you inserted a $10 bill to ring the bell. If the person home
- thought it was worth answering the door, you got your money back.
-
- How about having only a 900 number? If it's someone to whom you
- wanted to speak, there would be no charge. All other calls were
- charged something like $10 for bothering you. (This is assuming that
- there's such a thing as a variable rate 900 number).
-
-
- Jeffrey Jonas jeffj@panix.com
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-
- [Moderator's Note: There are carriers like MCI who will deliver 900
- service to you without doing the billing on it. They deliver the ANI
- with the call and you figure out who/how to bill. Even if all you
- charged was 25-50 cents per call, it would cut down on many of your
- wrong numbers, sales calls, etc. PAT]
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