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- Subject: Re: Dedicated ATM card?
- Message-ID: <Hfkes*a40@stile.stonemarche.org>
- From: me@stile.stonemarche.org (Mark Eklof)
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 11:56:27 -0500
- References: <1992Dec30.192254.3457@chpc.org> <1993Jan2.093910.8165@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
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- In article <1993Jan2.093910.8165@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, bill nelson writes:
- > rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie) writes:
- > : This service is automated - you are prompted to touch tone in the area
- > : code and the first three digits of "the number you are calling from".
- >
- > I don't know why they would want that. Since it is an 800 number, they
- > have your complete phone number, as soon as you call.
-
- Not necessarily. Real-time ANI delivery (i.e. what gives some
- 800 numbers your BILLING number as soon as you call) costs more money
- than just getting the ANI data in a monthly statement. If it isn't
- useful to whoever runs the 800 line, they may not get it.
-
- Mark
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- Mark D. Eklof
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- Brookline, New Hampshire, USA
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