Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: jimmy@denwa.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Touring the Central Office Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 89 04:47:11 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Jim Gottlieb Organization: Info Connections, West Los Angeles Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 311, message 7 of 10 In article bovine!john@apple.com (Higgy Baby) writes: > >In article , kitty!larry >@uunet.uu.net (Larry Lippman) writes: >> It is becoming extremely difficult for even an organized group >> to tour a central office in any BOC area. BOC's are particularly paranoid >> (perhaps rightfully so) about outside people being in any central office. > >Things must have been different in years gone by. I believe they were. In the late 1970s, I got tours of several COs just by picking up the phone in front of the building and asking if I could come in and look around. I can't imagine them letting someone in like that today. My first tour, in fact, was on a Saturday. The lone switchman on duty let my friend and I in, and we must have been there 4 hours, just chatting and touring. He did make us promise that we would not tell anyone that he let us in, but I just can't imagine someone risking his job like that in this current age of hackers and outright criminals. -- Jim Gottlieb E-Mail: or or V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454