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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 04:54:32 EST
- From: FZC@CU.NIH.GOV
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Additional Phone Charges
- Reply-To: TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
- Message-ID: <telecom13.7.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 7, Message 4 of 13
- Lines: 23
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- In Telecom Digest 12-928, Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com> says:
-
- > One of my favorites, non-listed phone number (note: NOT
- > non-published; non-listed IS available from DA, they just have
- > to leave it off the yearly list they send to the printers) goes
- > from $1.00/month to $2.00/month. I'd love to see the salaries
- > for the people who must go through and pull the non-listed
- > numbers out by hand; nothing else can justify that kind of
- > charge. (Before you say, well, non-listed numbers generate
- > more DA calls: DA calls go from 24 to 40 cents, plus they go
- > from first 5/3 free for residence/business to 3/0 free.)
-
- I may have mentioned this before, but the simplest way to get the
- equivalent of an unlisted number is to ask for the phone to be listed
- {without address} under your roommate's name of Zyagur Xeanamux. When
- someone calls asking for him, you know that it's a telemarketer.
- What, you mean you don't have a roommate by that name? Exactly ...
-
-
- Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
- These opinions are mine alone.
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