Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: davef@brspyr1.brs.com (Dave Fiske) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Busy Signals: Are 900 Numbers a Waste of Money? Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 15:30:55 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 41 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 11 of 12 In article , telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: > [Condensed from an article in the Chicago Tribune, August 22, 1989] > > On 900-909-1133 "Women's Secret Confessions" you get a scratchy recording > of several women who earlier consented to have their phone calls taped for > later listening by strangers. These women sound more like Roseanne Barr > than Joan Collins. > We received a stray issue of some Freebie magazine called "InfoText: The Information by Telephone Magazine". Apparently they made a real boner in a previous issue. Here's the correction from the April 1989 issue: WE CONFESS...WE MADE A MISTAKE! InfoText regrets a typographical error made in our February issue that caused an annoyed but understanding citizen considerable inconvenience. In our news item, "CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL", we covered a service called the "Apology Sound-Off Line" provided by United Telecommunications in Los Angeles. We printed the number and it was incorrect. The number to call if you want to confess is: (213)654-1055. How would you like to have been the unlucky slob whose number was incorrectly printed? Your phone rings day and night, and when you answer, people start emotionally reciting their sins involving brothers-in-law, babysitters, and embezzlement--probably before you even get a chance to say "Hey, you got the wrong number." (By the way, I triple-checked my own typing of that number before sending this article!) -- "ANGRY WOMEN BEAT UP SHOE SALESMAN Dave Fiske (davef@brspyr1.BRS.COM) WHO POSED AS GYNECOLOGIST" Home: David_A_Fiske@cup.portal.com Headline from Weekly World News CIS: 75415,163 GEnie: davef