Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: stiatl!john@gatech.edu (John DeArmond) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why DA Costs Should Be Spread Among All Subscribers Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 17:25:47 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Procedure IS the product" Lines: 22 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 337, message 5 of 12 goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com writes: >I don't usually disagree with John, but I think he misses the point. >Some folks abuse Directory Assistance. Badly. Some businesses used to >use it (and still might, where it's free) as a means to verify credit >cards on the cheap. Fred, you and I are in agreement on this point. I simply disagree with the concept that just because there are a few scumbags, we should punish the whole population. That's as bad as the current media campaign to ban a class of weapons because an insignificant number of scumbags abuse the right. The phone company is more than capable of matching DA accesses against calls made from a business. If the number of DA accesses is disappropriate to the call loading, then charge them heavily for the service, heavily enough to discourage further abuse. John -- John De Armond, WD4OQC | Manual? ... What manual ?!? Sales Technologies, Inc. Atlanta, GA | This is Unix, My son, You ...!gatech!stiatl!john **I am the NRA** | just GOTTA Know!!!