Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Peltier) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Busy Signals: Are 900 Numbers a Waste of Money? Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 89 20:02:00 GMT Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich. Lines: 18 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 332, message 9 of 9 arisco%cadillac.cad.mcc.com@mcc.com (John Arisco) writes: > Last night, I was watching Nickolodeon and I observed what has to be >the sleaziest 900 number scheme I've seen so far. The service was called >something like "Kid's Talk Line", and it encouraged kids to call this number >to speak with other kids (or maybe to hear recordings) about problems faced in >growing up. Nickelodeon is the scourge of the earth. It has so much power to shape the minds of the youth of America, and yet it presents so much materialistic, trendy, consumerist garbage that it's hardly tolerable... To think, it used to be a good channel. If I had the power to either severly limit or prevent my little sister from watching it, I would. As it is, she spends a good five hours a day plugged into it. Michael V. Peltier | Computer Aided Engineering Network 1420 King George Blvd. | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6924 | stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu