Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: dmr@csli.stanford.edu (Daniel M. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Operator Handling of International DA Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 20:35:17 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 537, message 2 of 3 telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >I never cease to be amazed at the careless and sometimes ignorant >handling of international calls for directory assistance by AT&T >Operators. >Maybe Chicago is an exception to the rule. Maybe every other city in [nightmare DA stories deleted] Maybe it is just the way AT&T works out here in Northern California, but the few times I have tried, the AT&T operator asks for the country/city, calls it up, and hands me over to them without any further ado. It has been up to me to handle any language difficulties, but the AT&T operator doesn't bug me. # Daniel M. Rosenberg // Stanford CSLI // Eat my opinions, not Stanford's. # dmr@csli.stanford.edu // decwrl!csli!dmr // dmr%csli@stanford.bitnet